| Summary: | Marie Darrieussecq’s La Mer à l'envers (P.O.L, 2019) is a novel about mass immigration, a theme that is more than ever in the social and political spotlight. For this reason, it becomes the right place to host the reflections of an author who openly defines herself as “committed”. What is interesting, is that not only does the writer’s commitment unfold in the text on a thematic level; an in-depth analysis of her work shows indeed that the novel bares a formal construction (both structural and narratological) in line with the critical discourse around the forms of commitment in the contemporary French literature, recently studied and described by many critics, notably by Dominique Viart. All of this makes it possible to conceive Marie Darrieussecq as an all-over committed writer.
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