Carnet des Dardanelles et « Dardanelles », entre échos et métamorphoses

The comparative study of Carnet des Dardanelles and “Dardanelles” offers significant insight into the genesis of a body of writing that still displays a shift towards the unusual, the unheard-of. This study mobilizes the distance from the horizon of expectation found in war writing in which shadows reduce light to silence, where the pathetic and emotional leave no room for the effectiveness of the strange and the distancing that the paradoxically jubilant language of Giraudoux allows to emerge.