La vérité et la fiction

Should we believe novels that, through metatextual passages, confound reality with fiction? Probably, when it means pointing out the fictionalization of referential elements of narrative, as in Audeguy’s La Théorie des nuages. Perhaps, when it involves identifying the utopian persistence of hope wit...

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Main Author: Cécile De Bary
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Pléiade (EA 7338) 2013-10-01
Series:Itinéraires
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/itineraires/870
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Summary:Should we believe novels that, through metatextual passages, confound reality with fiction? Probably, when it means pointing out the fictionalization of referential elements of narrative, as in Audeguy’s La Théorie des nuages. Perhaps, when it involves identifying the utopian persistence of hope within dreams, as in Le Clezio’s Ourania. Undoubtedly, when the narrator of La Vérité sur Marie assumes his use of fiction, as it is impossible to tell the truth, and consequently explicitly rearranges reality. Current novels use fiction and the extension of it, and willfully so.
ISSN:2427-920X