L' essence humaniste du roman contemporain

Abstract

In establishing literary activity as a real job, Gustave Flaubert produced an avalanche that, even nowadays, continues to supersede traditional narrative canons: characters, intrigues, feelings. Full as it is of mistrust and suspicion, the nouveau roman sought new literary forms in which object, subject and language were shown to be undergoing a crisis that led in the early 80’s to an eclectic new novelistic genre, enriched by symbolism, allegory, intertextuality, multidisciplinarity, language-games and narrativity. This poetic and magical re enchantment opens, once more, an essentially humanistic perspective towards the newly inaugurated twenty first century.