Quand un murmure en dit long Expérimentation, amplification des erreurs et épistémologie de la fiction

In literary and art studies, experimentation is considered as a playful and subversive phenomenon or a form of self-reflexivity. This article focuses on exploratory functions of experimentation and argues that narrative experimentation calls our thinking attention to reality through the techniques of manipulation, defamiliarization, and error amplification. It points out similarities in experimental thinking across fields and in understanding experimentation as a path to new research problems.