Science-fiction et fin du monde : l’apocalypse et les usages partiels du genre (compte-rendu multiple)

Abstract

This review-essay first makes a report of Jean-Paul Engelibert’s Apocalypses sans royaume (2013) and Fabuler la fin du monde (2019), and Yannick Rumpala’s Hors des décombres du monde (2018). Then it discusses their positive contributions to a philosophy and politics of disaster, but also their approach to science fiction, which can be described as partial, because they discard either the generic frame, or the textual dimension of the works.

Keywords

• apocalypse
• catastrophe
• utopia
• prototopia
• genre
• Engelibert (Jean-Paul)