Vol. 26 (2025): Special Issue: Déchets, débris et autres matières et choses inutiles dans la littérature, la pensée et les arts
Déchets, débris et autres matières et choses inutiles dans la littérature, la pensée et les arts

Pour balayer les détritus de la littérature française

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Sylviane Coyault
Université Clermont Auvergne
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59533/Verb.2025.26.sp.1

Published 06-05-2025

Keywords

  • waste,
  • fragment,
  • ecology,
  • poetry,
  • temporality,
  • sociology,
  • Quignard,
  • Poix,
  • Échenoz,
  • Rouanet

How to Cite

Coyault, S. (2025). Pour balayer les détritus de la littérature française. Verbum – Analecta Neolatina, 26, 7–22. https://doi.org/10.59533/Verb.2025.26.sp.1
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Abstract

Rubbish, useless things and fragments took on considerable importance in literature from the realist period in nineteenth-century France onwards. This phenomenon seems to have intensified in the twentieth century, starting with the New Novel and ‘chosisme’. In recent years, ecological concerns have led to the emergence of new works on the treatment of waste around the world. We can also see the strange literary fertility of this motif, and even its poetic effectiveness,  because of its melancholic and nostalgic charge and its temporal value.

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