La génération Mai 68 revisitée dans deux romans français contemporains

Abstract

The novels Les Images by Alain Rémond (1997) and Camarades de classe (2008) by Didier Daeninckx paint the portrait – sometimes difficult to recognize – and narrate the erratic path of a generation amply marked by the events and major ideas of May 68 but who find it difficult to assume its whole legacy or to remain faithful to it. In doing so, it is to a certain portrait of contemporary France, with its values, its contradictions and its inconsistencies that we are dealing, and with a generation often far removed from the socio-political commitments made, and libertarian slogans chanted during May 68. This ambivalent report is drawn up namely through contradictory visions and (re)readings of this less and less “recent” past.

Keywords

• May 68
• contemporary novels
• Rémond (Alain)
• Daeninckx (Didier)