Edouard Pagant

Written in the first person, the text tells the story of the metamorphosis of the main character who, forced to lock himself up at home and limit his movements outside, sees his body liquefy, then reshape to the form and scale of his flat. Only certain organs (head, hand, sex and anus) retain their original shape and continue to activate within its fluid body occupying all the space. This sudden transformation will change his daily activities, his relationship to space and time, and his brief outings. When the need to buy food forces him to go out, he no longer leaves the flat, but takes it with him. Outside, his movements are painful and complicated by the presence of others who have undergone the same transformation. The bodies, which have become architectural counter-forms, struggle to move forward, avoiding the physical contacts that break their new epidermis and force them to interact. Encounters are now based on conflict, speech and words have lost their relational function and are reduced to the expression of individual dissatisfaction, language has become sound and scream. This situation persists and our character develops a routine, but during an outing, a fall will cause a rupture in his body, unable to move he will have to find help from those he avoided until then.