Constructions réticulaires autour de Lection de Friederike Mayröcker à partir du dialogue avec l’œuvre d’Andreas Grunert

A clearly identified passage from Friederike Mayröcker’s 1994 novel “Lection” narrates the main character’s first encounter with a painting by Andreas Grunert. A close reading of this passage reveals that it is both a place where various inter- and intratextual relations intersect and that it stands at the crossroads of interactional confluences, which extend way beyond it. This passage exemplifies the way in which Mayröcker gets hold of the networking trend which informs late twentieth century aesthetics and then turns it into a force of resistance against the emptiness and dullness of today’s world.