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Magical Tome

Cover of Territoires de la Non-Fiction
First published
2020
Publisher
BRILL
Pages
377 pages
ISBN
9789004363199

Territoires de la Non-Fiction

The outer archives are busy

by Alexandre Gefen

Adventure

About this book

"Si les siècles qui précédaient avaient vu le couronnement du roman, la littérature du XXIe siècle débute avec le triomphe du document : écritures de voyage, d'investigation, enquêtes judiciaires ou ethnologiques, autobiographies, factographies, factions, rapports et enregistrements littéraires, et autres formes de récits refusant de se dire fictions occupent nos librairies : émerge sous nos yeux une toute nouvelle littérature d'information, de témoignage, d'inventaire ou de documentation. Or ces textes ne se contentent pas de déjouer les critères des classements des bibliothèques et d'intriguer les théoriciens du récit, ils modifient profondément les catégories du littéraire et imposent leur poétique propre. C'est dire si l'heure est à inventorier et à comprendre les territoires de la non-fiction, genre capital de notre contemporain. If the previous centuries had seen the crowning of the novel, the literature of the 21st century begins with the triumph of the document: travel writings, investigative, criminal or ethnological investigations, autobiographies, "factographies", factions, literary reports and recordings, and other forms of narrative that refuse to call themselves fictions occupy our bookstores : a whole new literature of information, testimony, inventory or documentation is emerging before our eyes. Yet these texts not only thwart the criteria of library classifications and intrigue narrative theorists, they also profoundly modify the categories of the literary and impose their own poetics. In other words, the time has come to inventory and understand the territories of non-fiction, the capital genre of our time"--

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