Résumé :

This paper examines the work of Laurent Mauvignier through the lens of vulnerable and marginalized subjectivities confronted with traumatic events. Focusing in particular on Loin d’eux (1999) and Des hommes (2009), it explores how Mauvignier’s writing gives narrative and vocal form to experiences of rupture -intimate, social, and historical ; that durably affect bodies, memory, and the capacity for relation. Mauvignier’s novels can be read as polyphonic “books of voices” in the Bakhtinian sense, staging the coexistence of marginalized consciousnesses deprived of a fully audible place within the social sphere. These fragmented or impeded voices bear the marks of trauma, which profoundly reshapes their relationship to language and to the world. The event, rather than remaining a closed past occurrence, becomes the point of origin of narrative time and of writing itself, as an experience that continues to act upon the present of the subjects. The analysis shows that Mauvignier’s poetics, grounded in tremor, repetition, and breath - stages attempts at relation marked by failure, disjunction, or incompletion. Literature thus emerges as a space where marginalized voices are exposed, and where the impossibility of fully articulating experience or forming stable bonds foregrounds the constitutive vulnerability of these lives. In this sense, Mauvignier’s work engages an ethical reflection on reading, listening, and contemporary forms of marginality.