Mathias Énard Et l'Érudition Du Roman [French]

Depuis plus de dix ans, les romans de Mathias ?nard connaissent un succ?s qui ne se d?ment pas. La Perfection du tir en 2003, mais aussi Zone en 2008, Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'?l?phants en 2010 et Rue des voleurs en 2012 ont remport? des prix litt?raires de grand renom. Enfin, le jury du prix Goncourt a opt? en 2015 avec Boussole pour un roman dans lequel l'imagination romanesque a pour support une ?poustouflante ?rudition portant sur l'Orient. Ce volume cherche ? ?clairer les modalit?s narratives qui permettent ? l'auteur de transformer l'?rudition en roman, mais aussi ? situer son oeuvre dans le contexte litt?raire actuel.

Over the past ten years the novels of Mathias ?nard have enjoyed both widespread critical acclaim and commercial success. In 2015 ?nard was awarded the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize, for Compass, a work which explores the fraught and often fruitful relationship between Europe and the Orient through the musings of an Austrian musicologist. Yet in spite of these successes, and Mathias ?nard's penchant for filling his novels with historical fact, little has been written about his work in academic circles. This volume seeks to fill that gap and shed light on the narrative modalities that allow the author to transform erudition into narration. It also seeks to situate his work in the current literary context, which is being shaped ever more by historical narratives.