L’écriture du corps malade ou un royaume pour ma mémoire: le personnage Cioran de Matéi Visniec

Abstract

This article aims to analyse and to comprehend the complexity of a fictionalized character such as Emil Cioran in Visniec’s play, A Paris attic overlooking death, now, an old man suffering from Alzheimer’s, on the edge of death, having to endure not only his memory loss, but also an incessant whirlpool of thoughts and emotions of his past, now fragmentary, inaccurate, and inconclusive. Wandering in a labyrinth of mirrors and fragilities, we get to contemplate Cioran the human instead of Cioran the philosopher, therefore, to that extent, we’ll dismantle and immerge in his deconstructive and nihilist philosophy and his well-known paradoxes, but mostly, we will focus on how the play reveals a short story of decay, of a gradual disappearance into oblivion, contrary to the nirvanization of illness and lyricism of flesh so praised in his writings.