Politiques narratives d’Éric Chevillard : pour une littérature littéraire

<p>Éric Chevillard, associated mainly with ludic literature, which plays with the word and deconstructs novelistic conventions, in his own way inscribes himself in the tradition of engaged literature. By means of atypical narration and singular style he fights against not so much social, political or economic injustice as stereotypical literature in all its triviality and formulaicity. Relying on selected theories of narrative strategies characteristic of novels and militant texts, the present paper analyses Démolir Nisard, one of Chevillard’s most confrontational texts, and thus discusses modalities and assumptions of the work inspired by the overtly political genre – the pamphlet.</p>

Automythomanies littéraires

In their autofictional work, many writers keep losing the reader, deceiving him (Eric Chevillard), making up literary fakes (W.G. Sebald, Enrique Vila-Matas). These mystifiers create writers or books, and abolish the border between reality and imagination. These automythomaniacs seem to be characters of their own world…