Concluding in the “Pièces détachées”, “Le Cheval mort” is announced in the prologue of Gaspard de la Nuit and there are many connections to the portions retained in the manuscript sent to Renduel. The current article explores the manner in which the fantastic flight of the horse and the constitutive ambiguities of the text are based on the idea of the nobility of the horse and the less glorious idea of the slaughterhouse.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques