Die With Your Boots On : agressivite et exclusion dans La rage, de Louis Hamelin

Where does the line that borders aggressiveness from violence rest? Can a faux pas drive from one realm to the other? French Canadian novelist Louis Hamelin has examined these questions in his first novel, La rage, published in 1989. Through a range of quotes where heavy metal "slogans" occupy a central place, the author has put his main character in a situation where aggressiveness and exclusion ease the pain of living. This paper examines how Hamelin uses the quoted songs; it tries to find if and to what extent they have an impact on the narrative; finally, it evaluates the effects they have on a potential imaginary of aggressiveness.