Narrative Disintegration
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.150
POWERS OF HORROR > SUFFERING AND HORROR
Theoretical move: Kristeva argues that in Céline's narrative, suffering and horror are not merely thematic content but the structural principle of abjection itself: when the subject-object boundary collapses, narrative form disintegrates from linear story into cry, then into poetic violence and silence, while sublimation (writing, music, love) marks the infinitesimal distance that keeps the speaking subject from total dissolution into abjection.
its makeup changes; its linearity is shattered, it proceeds by flashes, enigmas, short cuts, incompletion, tangles, and cuts... the narrative yields to a crying-out theme