And If, at the Louvre, We Breathed a Ghost! Geocriticism of a Museum As a Space

Lamia Mecheri

Abstract


The Ghosts of the Louvre by Enki Bilal embodies  an exhibition of this artist which took place in this same place. The author offers an unusual visit to the museum: he has chosen works from which he brings up so many ghosts. The artist juxtaposed the ghosts and the photographs taken and built a biography for each protagonist. Using geocriticism, we will answer the following questions: how does the author take over the museum to build multiple and heterogeneous parallel worlds? How does the museum become both a place of terror and of admiration?


Keywords


museum; ghost; art; geocriticism; literature

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2020.44.4.57-66
Date of publication: 2020-12-22 14:44:04
Date of submission: 2020-03-13 00:29:05


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