Fignolé

The stylistic choices Fignolé makes in his prose fiction works might certainly be considered a direct response to the traumatic silencing he evokes in his description of Frankétienne's fiction. Similarly to Frankétienne, Fignolé addresses the perceived opposition of the spoken and the written word, and his narratives reflect a decided discomfort with, or at the very least an implicit challenge to, the privilege and privileging of the scribal. Both Les Possédés de la pleine lune and Aube Tranquille take up this issue of the ostensibly fundamental linkage between writing and silence through the almost excessive orality of the textual worlds they narrate. In both works, the strands of multiple narratives are woven together by a host of often frenetically verbal participants in the various dramas being played out in their pages. Challenging his readers' expectations for coherent revelations from a centralized narrative authority, Fignolé more and less directly references a folk tradition in ways that destabilize parameters of literature and productively engage with conventions of orality.