Un policier rat enquête sur un improbable raticide: « les rats ne tuent pas les rats ». El policia rata de Bolaño (également une œuvre testamentaire et dont le héro est le lointain neveu de Joséphine) s’inscrit dans la même lignée littéraire. On peut y voir une métaphore sur l’art et y déceler la description des mutations que connaîtra la figure de l’artiste au cours du XXème siècle. Special thanks to the artists and Galerie 1900-2000, BQ, Carlos/Ishikawa, Chapter NY, KARMA, KOW, Lucas Hirsch, Nonaka-Hill, Sadie Coles HQ.ĭans Joséphine la Cantatrice ou Le peuple des souris, dernier texte et oeuvre testamentaire écrite en 1923, Kafka décrit la pratique d’un art sans virtuosité, fruit d’un peuple de souris qui ignore l’histoire. While on the look-out for stories that are both “speculative and realistic fabulations”, as Donna Haraway puts it, do authors and artists seek in this way a moral or other stories found among animals, which cannot be seen in our human past or projected in our human future? Ink does not just conceal, it shows something different, in a deliberate form of expressiveness. Octopi create language through their camouflage strategies: the ink sprays they eject to delude their predators remain “suspended in the water, forming a rather dense ball, finishing in a kind of tail”, thus leading any pursuers to “mistake their prey for a shadow”. Meanwhile, Vinciane Desprès’ Autobiography of an Octopus evokes the existence of an animal literature. A rat policeman investigates an improbable ‘raticide’: “rates don’t kill rats”. Bolaño’s El policia rata (also a testamentary work, whose hero is a distant nephew of Josephine) adopts the same literary approach. There can be seen in it a metaphor for art and we can perceive a description of the mutations which the figure of the artist would undergo during the 20th century. In Josephine the Singer, or The Mouse Folk, Kafka’s final text and testamentary work, written in 1923, he described the practice of an art lacking in virtuosity, produced by a population of mice that know nothing about history.
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