Lieu perdu, réel retrouvé : fictions documentaires pour l’écopoétique en temps de crise

In this article we compare two documentary novels (Alice Ferney, Le Règne du vivant and Jean Rolin, Un chien mort après lui) in order to investigate the strategy between fiction and documentary with reference to the environmental crisis of our days. The range of devices making it possible to anchor the narrative to reality as well as a varied orchestration of the registers used by Ferney and Rolin will allow us to analyse two novels, sometimes divergent and sometimes convergent, in which a strongly disturbed reality is inscribed. Finally, by means of the rhetorical notion of pathos, we will show how the reader is enabled to find a sense of community with the living, at a time when fragility and vulnerability affect all life on earth.