TY - JOUR
TI - Roman d’aventure et événement. Pour une littérature (vraiment) populaire
AU - Courtieu, Marc
TI - Roman d’aventure et événement. Pour une littérature (vraiment) populaire
AB - Adventure fiction and event. Towards a (truly) popular literature
Questioning the place of the event in the fiction narrative through naturalism in turn led some writers – such as Stevenson, London, Conrad – to set it at the core of the plot itself. This pre-eminence might then well be used as a standard for a literature known as « popular ». Those writers – whose lineage is huge in comics, crime fiction and cinema – have the « hero » become the one to be faced with the very events he or she causes to happen, and which henceforth makes up the core of any narrative. The latest avatar of those seesaw movements can be found in the modern generalization of « storytelling », a trend which responds to the New French Fiction, for example. Couldn't this contemporary obsession for 'storytelling' then be the sign of what purports to be a reenchantment of the world, as if it was not possible to contemplate the world in any other way than rife with events through which alone it can make sense.
VL - 2015
IS - Numéro 8 Narrations
PY - 2015
SN - 2300-4681
C1 - 2353-8953
SP - 25
EP - 37
DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.15.011.4346
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/roman-daventure-et-evenement-pour-une-litterature-vraiment-populaire
KW - novel
KW - event
KW - popular literature
KW - adventure fiction