La sagesse du passage

Abstract: The meanings of passage are so many. Most often, they reflect ways of inscribing ourselves in time and space. And since time and space are in constant flux, adapting to the very idea of passage eventually leads us to a wisdom that accommodates metamorphosis, ephemerality and incompleteness. Passages force us to interact. It is precisely this kind of transversal thinking, which defies the idea of fixity, that we will be reflecting on. Under the aegis of Walter Benjamin, the man of the Parisian passages , we'll begin by asking what happens to the word passage in the passage of languages, more specifically, between French, German and Italian. This philological reflection will then lead us to specifically geocritical considerations, aimed at including the examination of representations of human spaces in a dynamic perspective, a flow, a passage. It should be noted that immobility is more a feature of the political construction of places than of the literary perception of spaces . As it is difficult to sum up in a few formulas the different meanings of passage that populate this research, I will confine myself to three occurrences of the term, all of which imply mobility: transgressivity, multifocalization and interdisciplinarity .