Marielle Macé and the Politics of Form

For nearly two decades, Marielle Macé has been working on the formal aspects of literature. Her reflections have focused on genres, reading, style, migration and ecology, while remaining steadfastly anchored to a “formalist” vocabulary, encompassing literary forms, the formal framework of language, as well as the formalities of existence – social gestures and postures, or the protocols of interactions, including those with animal behaviour. Two pivotal aspects emerge from an analysis conducted on Marielle Macé’s approach. The first concerns the ability of contemporary formalism to reorient itself in response to questions about the subject, the community and society. The second point calls into question the shift from moral reflection on form to ecological reflection. This transition entails tracing the reorientation of form and the rearrangement of its properties within new ideological contexts that discuss the relationship with the environment and with nature.

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