Connell in 1995 and, as summed (.)ġ Ian McEwan’s early observation on the paradoxical invisibilisation of individual men by patriarchal systems in which masculinity becomes a universal, normative standard, may well explain his much discussed ‘interest in rewriting, or at least in intervening in, popular discourses of masculinity’ (Davies in Lea & Schoene 2003, 106). 2 These four categories of masculinity were initially outlined by R.W.1 Critics have frequently focused on the author’s repeated involvement with issues of gender, and sev (.).Cet article se propose d’étudier les effets de la vulnérabilité contagieuse de Jed dans un récit qui à la fois reproduit et rejette les procédés courants d’invisibilisation et de silenciation des malades mentaux, et de mettre au jour les dynamiques visant, à travers la confrontation des deux protagonistes, à (dé)masquer la masculinité.

En mettant la folie masculine, encore rarement explorée, au premier plan, le roman compte à la fois rendre visible des masculinités souvent marginalisées, et dévoiler la face cachée des masculinités hégémoniques ainsi que leurs soubassements narratifs. Comme l’explique Guillaume Le Blanc, toute personne vulnérable court dans nos sociétés le risque de l’invisibilisation or dans Enduring Love, devant Jed, Joe se trouve souvent dans l’incapacité de détourner le regard. Bien qu’il demeure le plus souvent une présence invisible dans le roman, Jed Parry y occupe une place tout aussi centrale et si sa version des faits est reléguée aux marges du récit par la voix narrative, presque entièrement monopolisée par Joe, ce dernier ne parvient cependant pas à le réduire au silence. This paper focuses on the ways in which Parry’s vulnerability seeps into a narrative which both repeats and repeals traditional processes of invisibilisation and silencing of men with mental illness, and on the (un)masking of masculinity at play in the confrontation between Joe and Jed.Įnduring Love d’Ian McEwan (1997) met son protagoniste Joe Rose, fervent rationaliste, face à la folie d’un autre homme dont il devient l’obsession. By foregrounding the rarely explored madness of men, the novel simultaneously makes traditionally marginalised forms of masculinity visible, and sheds light on what often remains invisible behind the façade of hegemonic masculinities, exposed as quintessentially narrative constructs. Although, as stated by Guillaume Le Blanc, the vulnerable often tend to become invisible in our society, in Enduring Love, Joe often finds himself unable to look away from Jed.

Although he remains, for much of the novel, an invisible presence, Jed Parry is as central a character as Joe, whose near-monopoly on narrative voice may well relegate the former’s version of the story to the margins, yet fails to silence him.

Ian McEwan’s 1997 Enduring Love has its resolutely rational protagonist, Joe Rose, stare madness in the face once he becomes the object of another man’s obsession.

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