« La part qui me revient ». Jean-Luc Lagarce’s Journal : Poetics of the Extremity of Life
In this paper, I examine Jean-Luc Lagarce’s Journal in the light of Edward W. Saïd’s On Late Style. This allows me to demonstrate the deep affinity of Lagarce’s writing with the extremity of life, particularly in the singular space of elaboration and deliberation that is Journal, even before the diagnosis of seropositivity. Yet, when the diagnosis comes, it only reinforces the awareness of “the middle of our life’s journey,” to quote the opening of Dante’s Inferno, from which the perception of the time left to live intensifies.