Abstract:The central difficulties – to begin, to continue, to end – unfold in the three parts of the story of the cycle of mud, in How It Is. Violence is lodged in the anti-natural horizontality and crawling which man is constrained to adopt : in a miniature reflection of a story that can no longer be written. Literature, and perhaps history, can provide a response to this violence of a horizontality evolving by loops and spirals, that is spoken by scraps and without punctuation.
