Poétique de l’intermédialité dans Monsieur Ki de Koffi Kwahulé

Abstract

This reflection studies the poetics of intermediality in Monsieur Ki by Koffi Kwahulé. We try to show, thanks to the inventory of the media present and especially to their decryption, that the writing of this novel is located in the space of the in-between; which causes the explosion of the story and the crisis of genericity. In fact, the cohabitation of media and novelistic writing reveals an “out of the ordinary” narrative, fractured, fragmented and hybrid. With intermediality, novelistic writing turns its back on uniformity and coherence, to give birth to a formless, iconoclastic and rebellious novel. Monsieur Ki is thus understood as a postmodern novel; it takes into account an elusive and fragmented worldview. Keywords: Poetics of intermediality, space of the in-between, bursting of the narrative, crisis of genericity, atomization of the novel, hybrid coloring, postmodern novel.