| Summary: | Nicolas Pesquès’s multi-volume work of poetic life-writing, La Face nord de Juliau (1988–), is examined here from an ecological perspective attuned to the weave of relations between the writing subject, the text, and the environment. In a discussion framed by Jacques Derrida’s remarks on the ‘autobiographical animal’, the article explores Pesquès’s treatment of language, subjectivity, the experience of exteriority, and human/non-human relations. The network of relations in play is examined from a range of anthropological angles, culminating in an extended and reworked sense, once again indebted to Derrida, of what anthropologists such as Alfred Gell describe as ‘distributed personhood’.
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