Cali : de la chanson au roman, une écriture écorchée vive

Abstract

The many cases of French singers who decided to write novels raise the question of the continuity between the two types of writing. In Cali's case, the fusion is complete and is based on mechanisms of autotextuality. A whole network of echoes and recurrences is set up, in order to elaborate an emotional autobiography that flouts the usual boundaries between song and narrative. This strategy makes the question of enunciation and the status of the narrator very subtle in Cali’s novels, written by a singer and conceived as an extension of his musical work.