Abstract
The protagonist and narrator of Percival Everett’s novel Erasure sells his soul to the devil when he accepts that his parody of the Afro-American novel be taken seriously and rewarded by a jury he despises but of which he is one of the members. Right from the start Everett’s narrative unfolds according to the norm/transgression dynamics. This paper shows that the movement that carries this dynamics throughout the whole narrative reproduces the cinetism of the system of the English article – discovered by the French linguist Gustave Guillaume – and that the existential position of a man as rebellious as he is conformist can be grammatically declined according to the potential uses of the substantive « writer ».
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