D’un retour de flamme pour la fiction romanesque

Abstract

Taking as starting-point a concrete example, the beginning of chapter 28 of I’m off, this article seeks to clarify the ins and outs of the renarrativisation deployed in many contemporary novelistic fictions. It is possible, by successive analyses of the architext, the intertext and the metatextual to circumscribe more precisely this intense effort in the field of aesthetic modeling. This analysis sheds light on a case of speculative formalism which is representative of the tricks and detours of narrative and fiction which are characteristic of the novel today.

Keywords

• contemporary fiction
• renarrativisation
• aesthetic modeling
• transtextuality
• speculative formalism