Voyage to the heart of baseness, or the exploratory search

This article focuses on the relation between the creation of the explorean language, which is part of a work of eradication and dismemberment of langu age, and a figure that is particularly present in the work of Claude Gauvre au: the disembowelment of a woman, which is specifically presented in the p lay Petrouchka. In this context, hideousness ("l'immonde") is viewed as a s tructure of the reality of death that makes its return through the represen tation of the disembowelled woman and is even embodied in the letter as glo ssolalic barks; these sounds appear as a way of speaking the unknown relate d to death.