Broken subject

Martine 2022-01-18 08:02:30

Reading many clichés that "the construction of the female subject is a myth" is no match for seeing the nameless corpse in the ice and snow. Just like "Citizen Kane", the heroine's tragic fate is inevitable from the beginning.

Everyone in the story materializes her in their own way. The emptiness of her existence, even the traces and memories are fleeting. She rejects language, is silent and not good at speech, and is a child who has failed to complete the transition from the imagination to the symbolic world. She loves to collect all kinds of discarded objects on the roadside: broken earthen jars, dirty and fake painting "The Birth of Venus", and discarded raw materials from industrial production. Their naked social uselessness directly refers to Bataille's "unproductive". The excessive consumption of the capitalist economy not only produces garbage in batches, but also produces slums and homeless people. They are the victims of modern society, and even the relatively static and traditional southern France cannot stay out of it.

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Vagabond quotes

  • la platonologne Mme Landier: Why did you drop out?

    Mona Bergeron, sans toit ni loi: Champagne on the road's better!

  • les Bergers: She blew in like the wind. No plans, no goals... No wishes, no wants... We suggested things to her. She didn't want to do a thing. Wandering? That's withering. By proving she's useless, she helps a system she rejects. It's not wandering, it's withering.