Point de Rencontres : Une Étude de Passages "Infrahumains" dans Le Rond-Point d'Évelyne Trouillot

Herbeck examines the significance of human encounters in Haitian writer Trouillot’s latest novel. Taking place in Haiti’s sprawling capital, Port-au-Prince, the novel recounts the lives of three lonely protagonists from different socio-economic backgrounds whose lives literally and figuratively “collide” at the eponymous rotary in the final chapter of the novel. Reading the rotary as a metaphor for society’s fast-paced solution to avoiding challenging face-to-face encounters with others, Herbeck demonstrates how such calculated and even justified tactics can, due precisely to the missed opportunities for better understanding one another, lead to unexpectedly violent confrontations.