Fragments de la fin du monde qui n’a pas eu lieu à travers Tarmac de Nicolas Dickner

Abstract

Born into a family obsessed with the end of the world, where each member receives their own vision of the Apocalypse, accompanied by a specific date, teenage Hope Randall seeks to obtain her own date of the Apocalypse, as family tradition demands. Hope, apart from being a Randall, has grown up between two significant sources for the development of an imaginary of the end of the world: The Bible and media. The Bible was her mother’s favourite reading, a universe to which Hope was exposed since her childhood. Accelerated speed of the narration, richness of cultural references and imaginary of the end of the world make Tarmac part of a contemporary trend in Quebec literature. In our contribution, we will analyse the fragments of prophecies of the Apocalypse in this work in relation to its representations of the imaginary end of the world and the perspective of Québec literature.