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The idea of disability as divine punishment is an enduring myth that French-Canadian author Yves Theriault draws upon in his 1966 novel, Les Commettants de Caridad . The narratologically complex story tells of how a proud but deceitful man acquired his multiple disabilities, all the while unsettling the link between disability and punishment, divine or otherwise. Using narratological analyses, Girard’s theories on violence and scapegoating , and Derridean notions of supplementarity and excess, this article suggests that Theriault’s implicit project is one that mobilizes hyperbolic representations of disability and reactions to it not to shore up stereotypical uses of disability in literature, but rather to undermine

Disabling Excess: Sacrificial Violence and Disability as Divine Punishment in Les Commettants de Caridad