Le détail, le réel

Based on the theoretical texts by Leslie Kaplan which evoke the detail as « condensation » and « convergence of meaning », this article focuses on certain details (« the cloths are fragile », « Sade shrugs his shoulders »…), in order to show how Leslie Kaplan’s writing employs a poetics of detail, centred on the rapport between words and things. This poetics testifies to a way of being in the world (for the characters) and of writing (for the author) which constructs the foundations of an archaeology of the real.