Abstract
Based on a corpus of contemporary French novels, this article proposes to explain the different approaches to the city. If it does not exhaust the fictional vein of the “course of a social territory” (Viart), our grouping around the works of Patrick Deville, Jean Rolin, Tanguy Viel, Thomas B-Reverdy and Laurent Gaudé shows however that the city is at the same time a motive and an engine, a crucible as much as a catalyst for the current major literary questions. The city will be French or not; at the centre of all violence, it becomes accursed; at the mercy of the elements, it is martyred.
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