Between prose poem, pantomime, and slapdash monologue, the short text “Chez le coiffeur,” sometimes called “Le Coiffeur,” reveals the hidden issues in a scene from urban life, in which the author, not without the use of comedy, makes cruelty well up. The black humor surrounding a situation of social violence that recalls other Huysmansian scenes is tempered, however, by a dry, blank humor that is largely marked by self-mockery.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques