A writer can seize on a news story and announce it in the public square, decrying what strikes him or her as unjust. This stance sometimes loses out to the defense of judicial error itself. In so doing, the writer strengthens it and, freeing it from the judicial framework, deploys it in the media space, thereby sublimating it—transforming it through elevation. This is a delicate ambition. The article “Sublime, forcément sublime,” authored by Marguerite Duras during the “Grégory affair,” bears witness to this.
