Qui narre le pathos chez Henry et Duras? Enjeux phénoménologiques du "cela" de l'écriture

Faced with the biographical, semiotic and hermeneutical methods that oppose the «I» of the author, the different voices associated with the narrator, and the «you» of the reader, this article seeks to approach from a resolutely phenomenological point of view the question of the «who» of romanesque writing. To do so, we study the way in which Michel Henry and Marguerite Duras refer to the demonstrative pronoun «that» as the mode of phenomenalisation of the act of relating. We first show that this «there» which decides on the very act of writing refers to the Foundation of radical subjective life in which forces and affects desire to feel themselves and to grow – suffer and delight themselves – by means of their own literary representation. The next task is to include the «that which writes» in a more general conception of language as «Word of life», which, going beyond any representation of the world and any configuration of meaning is able to «narrate the pathos» in the forms of the scream, music and the acting body. Finally, we affirm that the effacing of the writer to the advantage of the To Say of the self-affective life makes it possible to found any account in the same originary history of living beings which brings together the «I», the «other» and the «third party».