Kentukis de Samanta Schweblin. Connexions intimes

Abstract

This article offers a study of the issue of intimacy in the science fiction novel Kentukis by Samanta Schweblin (2018) based on both textual analysis and the theory of fiction and relying on philosophy and psychoanalysis. The question will be to understand the phenomenon of the over exposure of intimacy in the societies of transparency, through the « kentuki » device. The owner of this connected object agrees to be spied on by a voyeur on his digital interface, which tends to turn the « kentuki » into a symptom as well as an accelerator of the society of transparency in which the experience of intimacy is dwindling away and becoming scarce because of a badly settled pragmatic frame. The fiction and the reading of this particularly fragmentary novel are considered as the possibility of an intimate relationship in the potential space theorised by D.W. Winnicott - between the two ends of co-creation of the meanings of the text (production and reception).