TY - JOUR AU - Riva, Silvia PY - 2009/12/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - La città scrive: "détournements" nella cultura contemporanea di lingua francese JF - Altre Modernità JA - AMonline VL - IS - 1 SE - Saggi Ensayos Essais Essays DO - 10.13130/2035-7680/396 UR - https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/396 SP - 39-49 AB - The marks of the events on the urban landscape are a city's writing. <p>More than writings on a city - amongst which are the memorable work of Baudelaire, the ";flâneur";, and Apollinaire's Lettre-Océan -  they represent the analysis of the city that writes on its own texture.</p><p>This phenomenon relies on a procedure of diversion and estrangement which turns famous places into uncommon areas and it finds amongst its founding models the cinematographic production of Francois Truffaut (<em>Fahrenheit 451)</em>. A similar approach allows us to capture the significance of the work of Dominique Fourcade, one of the most important contemporary French poets. In <em>MW Chute, a </em> poem dated 5th October 2001, he describes the horror of the collapse of New York City's twin towers.</p><p>In this piece, Fourcade describes what happened to him on 9/11 not much from a man's perspective but rather from . a poetic standpoint. <em>Ground Zero</em> allows his writing to jump forward, and turn into a verbal city and labyrynth. His reflections on the urban landscape  which, collapses under the explosion become a map of dispersed images made of innumerabile <em>détournements</em> (detour aheads), of endless variants and deviations. The event becomes the model and shape of his writing.</p> ER -