La fusion entre la littérature et la paralittérature dans le roman de l’extrême contemporain : Le cas de Guillaume Musso

The Fusion Between Literature and Paraliterature in the Extreme Contemporary Novel: The Case of Guillaume Musso

Abstract

This article questions the contemporary extreme novel in its relation to the genres classified in the sphere of para-literature. It relies on two works done by Guillaume Musso and intends to demonstrate that this author allows a surpassing of traditional literature classifications. In his novels, Musso regroups previously opposite tendencies and proves that these can intersect, better complement each other to produce usable material for the morphological renewal of the novel. For this author, para-literature then becomes a source of mutation that can bring a touch of renewal to the French novel in its version known as the extreme contemporary. Thus, conceived in a discontinuous aesthetic, Musso's two novels offer a hybrid appearance to readers and become prototypes from which one can claim the disappearance of literary categorizations and even the death of so-called pure literature.