Kim, Annabel2019-11-132019-04-21Kim, Annabel L. 2019. The Excremental Poetics of Daniel Pennac’s Journal D’un Corps. French Studies 73, no. 3: 416-433.0016-11281468-2931http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:41815383The French literary landscape, from its earliest stages, is littered with faecal matter. Medieval fabliaux such as Audigier give us a coprophilic knight, the eponymous Audigier, who falls in love with women in proportion to how soiled their bottoms are; Rabelais’s Gargantua, as part of his princely education, methodically works his way through all manner of torchecul — satin, sage, fennel, hay, a cat, a hat, a rug — before settling on a gosling as the best; the Marquis de Sade’s Cent vingt journées de Sodome is well known for its coprophagy.en-USLinguistics and LanguageLiterature and Literary TheoryCultural StudiesHistoryLanguage and LinguisticsJournal Article2019-11-1310.1093/fs/knz077