The article examines the notion of OVNI ("Non-Identified Verbal Object"), theorized by Olivier Cadiot and Pierre Alferi (1995). In its form and function, the OVNI looks like nothing and evades identification. For this reason, he is caught up in a paradoxical process of recognition, based on social rituals other than those of a recognition for which identification is the primary condition. This recognition without identification could define how a literary work is activated.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques