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— The Poetics of Space - Gaston Bachelard
In a house that has become for the imagination the very heart of a cyclone, we have to go beyond the mere impressions of consolation that we should feel in any shelter.
We have to participate in the dramatic cosmic events sustained by the combatant house.
But the real drama of Malicroix is an ordeal by solitude.
==The inhabitant of La Redousse must dominate solitude in a house on an island where there is no village.
He must attain to the dignity of solitude that had been achieved by one of his ancestors, who had become a man of solitude as a result of a deep tragedy in his life.
He must live alone in a cosmos which is not that of his childhood.== This man, who comes of gentle, happy people, must cultivate courage in order to confront a world that is harsh, indigent and cold.
The isolated house furnishes him with strong images, that is, with counsels of resistance.
==And so, faced with the bestial hostility of the storm and the hurricane, the house’s virtues of protection and resistance are transposed into human virtues.
The house acquires the physical and moral energy of a human body.
It braces itself to receive the downpour, it girds its loins.
When forced to do so, it bends with the blast, confident that it will right itself again== in time, while continuing to deny any temporary defeats.
==Such a house as this invites mankind to heroism of cosmic proportions.
It is an instrument with which to confront the cosmos.
And the metaphysical systems according to which man is “cast into the world” might meditate concretely upon the house that is cast into the hurricane, defying the anger of heaven itself.==