Writing and Projection

This theoretical essay takes as its subject the relations between French literature contemporary and cinema from the notion of projection. Power intermedia between text and image, the projection opens a space contemporary writing between cinema and literature. This essay attempts to to circumscribe the span and to theorize its practices, reconfigurations of the novel through the prism of a cinematic imagination in des Forêts or Montalbetti, writer-filmmakers like Carrère or Alferi, through to the renewal canonical forms of adaptation or ekphrasis, in Claire Denis, Léos Carax, Jérôme Game or Nathalie Léger, when writing - syntax, metaphors, lights and shadows - traces the haunting of the figures on the screen. Rewriting, descriptions, intervals, screens, flipbooks, psychic projections, the intermediaries multiply between the text and its images, abandoning the too simple problem of adaptation.