ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author wants to emphasize the connection between ‘interpreting’ and ‘storytelling’, which he approach by making exclusive reference to its relevance as regards the interpretation of statutes by judges. The author asserts the proximity between the narrative of fiction and a court case; more precisely to show how the treatment of a case, including the mobilization of the legal texts having to be interpreted, intersects in multiple ways with the narratological operation and appeals to creative imagination at various levels. The author develops several propositions. At this stage, these statements largely consist of programmatic orientations within an intellectual undertaking that will warrant amplification in the future. One has learned to take interpretation seriously since the so-called ‘linguistic turn’, sometimes labelled the ‘hermeneutic turn’, that materialized in the second half of the twentieth century. For instance, any conception of justice is indebted to an interpretive filter: ‘a language game, a tradition, a paradigm, a conceptual scheme, a vocabulary’.
