Literatura francesa de la contemporaneidad y del extremo-contemporáneo

Abstract

This article tries to make an account of contemporary French literature. This is no easy task, especially in the case of the extreme-contemporary, due to the lack of distance and the scarcity of critical and theoretical references. But the very audacity of such an endeavor is precisely what made it attractive. In fact, paradox emerges as the matrix figure of this article, and seems to structure the thinking of our time. Thanks to the World Wide Web, our reality is perceived and experienced in an increasingly placeless and timeless way; this contemporary peculiarity led us to establish a dialogical relationship through time and space in order to highlight a certain tendency towards harmony in terms of literary continuum, beyond core innovations and traditional loans.