Cette thèse porte sur les représentations de la Seconde Guerre mondiale dans le roman français, de 1945 à 1960. Elle vise à mettre en lumière un corpus de la « guerre manquée », opposé à la vision épique dominante dans l'après-guerre. Elle analyse dans leurs dimensions esthétiques, éthiques et politiques, une vingtaine de romans dont le point commun est de donner à voir une guerre irréelle ou insaisissable, qui a pu constituer pour bien des Français une expérience commune.La première partie analyse la façon dont s’écrit le combat manqué. Ces romans dessinent l’image d’une guerre à la fois fantomatique et violente : observée à distance, presque toujours médiatisée, dissimulée sous des semblants de paix, mais invariablement destructrice.Les romans mettent également en lumière l’échec de la communauté. Par opposition au récit fondateur et unificateur qu’est l’épopée, ils dénoncent très tôt le mythe d’une France tout entière unie dans la lutte. La deuxième partie montre comment se construit l’image d’une nation déchirée ou passive, dont ils incarnent la mauvaise conscience.On s’intéresse enfin à la « pensée du roman », en montrant comment ce dernier a été le vecteur d’une réflexion spécifique sur la communauté. Contre les positions de la Résistance littéraire, puis de l’existentialisme, il a interrogé le primat du rationnel en l’homme ; contre la vogue du document, il a revendiqué la fiction pourexplorer les zones d’ombre ; contre la demande d’exemplarité, enfin, il a constitué un espace d’investigation autonome, attaché à contester les failles et les limites du discours épique. / This thesis deals with the representations of the Second World War found in the French novels published between 1945 and 1960. It aims to shed light on a body of works that depict a “failed war”, unlike the epic vision which prevails in the post-war period. It analyses from an aesthetic, ethical and political perspective twenty novels or so which portray war as an unreal, elusive experience shared by French people.The first part of this work scrutinizes the way writers depict the failure of war. These novels portray the conflict as both spectral and brutal – seen from a distance, almost always mediated, concealed under the appearance of peace, yet unescapably destructive.These novels also throw light on the failure of community. A far cry from the seminal, unifying narrative of the epic, they start attacking the myth of France as unified in the war effort very soon after the end of the conflict.The second part of this thesis looks at the ways they construct the image of a torn or passive nation, as if they were France’s guilty conscience.This study will finally examine the way the novel “thinks”, how it was specifically used to convey a specific reflection on community. Against the discourses of literary Resistance, then Existentialism, it questioned the primacy of rational thinking in men; against the prominence of documents, it embraced fiction as a means to explore dark territories; against the calls for exemplariness, it constituted itself as an autonomous space to investigate the war, as well as to challenge the failures and shortcomings of the epic discourse.

C’est en réinscrivant la notion d’engagement littéraire dans le contexte des années 1930, qui ont vu son émergence et sa mise en pratique, que nous nous proposons de rendre son caractère opérationnel à une expression trop souvent considérée comme contradictoire ou réductrice. Envisagée à travers des textes qui ont précédé la théorisation sartrienne – Le Monde réel d’Aragon, USA de Dos Passos et November 1918 de Döblin –, la notion d’engagement littéraire rend compte d’une écriture littéraire et d’une ambition politique qui ne se conçoivent que dans le rapport simultané de l’une à l’autre. Élaboré comme une réponse en acte à une situation jugée insupportable, le roman engagé des années 1930 apparaît comme le lieu de reconfigurations multiples : reconfiguration du regard porté sur le monde réel, dont le scandale est révélé en plein par la représentation romanesque ; reconfiguration de la langue de la nation et de l’entreprise narrative, redéfinies par opposition aux mésusages et aux manipulations des adversaires, et ainsi rénovées ; reconfiguration d’un espace politique intrinsèquement démocratique, dont la lecture permet l’expérimentation. / By inscribing the notion of literary commitment in the context of the 1930’s, which saw its apparition and its practice, we intend to restore the efficiency of an expression which is too often considered as the difficult conciliation between two areas supposedly antagonistic: politics and literature. Approached through novels which preceded Sartre’s theorization – Aragon’s The Real World, Dos Passos’ USA and Döblin’s November 1918 – the notion of literary commitment accounts for a literary writing and a political ambition which are only conceived in relation with one and another. Written as an answer in action to a situation considered as unbearable, the committed novel of the 1930’s appears as the place where multiple reconfigurations take place: reconfiguration of the perception of the real world, which scandal is revealed by the fictional representation; reconfiguration of the national language and of the narrative process, which are redefined by opposition to the misuses and the manipulations of the opponents; reconfiguration of a political space inherently democratic, experimented in the process of reading itself.

This dissertation examines the literature of royal consorts in Stuart England. Critics and historians have devoted considerable attention to the creation of the monarch’s image during this tumultuous period, which witnessed two revolutions and the explosion of print. We know that the Stuart monarchs embraced different forms of visual media – including pageantry, portraiture and print – to disseminate their image within the court and to a broader public. However, the extensive literature about the royal consorts remains under-examined. My thesis makes an original contribution to scholarship by exploring what texts were written about the royal consorts, by whom, and how these writers constructed images of the royal consorts that participated in broader debates over the status of the monarchy. The dissertation is divided into two main parts. Part 1 comprises six chapters that analyse succession writing, when a new monarch came to the throne and established their iconography for the new reign. I draw on hundreds of texts that were printed about the Stuart consorts at these moments. These writings span a variety of genres, from poems and plays to sermons and political pamphlets. I investigate the literature of each succession in turn, analysing the main themes and motifs that emerged. This approach enables me to uncover a swathe of anonymous and under-utilised literature, but also re-interpret works by more canonical writers such as Aphra Behn. I ask how the royal consorts themselves, their spouses and members of the public could influence the creation of the royal consorts’ images at these moments. Critically, I also compare the conventions that were used to describe the consorts across the century. Part 2 analyses how writers re-constructed ideals for the royal consorts in Restoration England, as debates about the structure of the monarchy came to be more explicit. Chapter 7 concentrates on images of Henrietta Maria when she returned to England as Queen Mother. Chapter 8 asks how writers adapted former models of representation to praise Catherine, the infertile queen, when it became clear that she would not bear an heir. Finally, Chapter 9 examines the numerous secret histories and romances that were authored about Mary Beatrice’s purported behaviour during her exile in the 1690s. These chapters highlight the continued importance of these women and examines how writers constructed their legacies. As a whole, the literature about the royal consorts reveals a dynamic project as part of which authors engaged with and adapted earlier models of writing. This enabled them to address broader questions about changes in the nature of the Stuart monarchy and political life.

Ce travail porte sur les six premiers récits de Gioconda Belli, romancière, poète et ex-révolutionnaire nicaraguayenne. Il interroge trois motifs récurrents dans son œuvre – la Révolte, la Révolution et l’Utopie –, et cherche à en expliquer la présence obsessionnelle. En tant qu’intermédiaires entre les sphères individuelle et collective, ces objets d’étude nécessitent un éclairage à la fois psychanalytique et sociologique ; ces deux disciplines sont donc les outils privilégiés dans l’analyse, de même que la psychologie sociale, qui s’intéresse précisément aux processus psychiques régissant les interactions interpersonnelles. L’hypothèse de départ est que l’engagement dérive de la situation identitaire instable des personnages au début du récit, et que le choix entre Révolte, Révolution et Utopie dépend des conditions identitaires dans lesquelles ils se trouvent. Pour vérifier ce postulat, notre étude s’attache à dessiner les contours de la carence affective de chaque protagoniste, et analyse les processus identitaires susceptibles d’influencer la décision de s’engager, ainsi que les mécanismes psychiques que cette décision déclenche. Le fait que la quête d’identité ne soit pas assouvie par l’engagement mène alors à s’interroger sur la fonction idéologique de la Révolte, de la Révolution et de l’Utopie dans ces romans. Il s’agit donc aussi de déterminer le rôle de ces trois objets dans les récits, par l’étude de leur dimension temporelle, qui remplit une fonction à la fois diégétique et idéologique, ainsi que par l’analyse du dispositif argumentatif qui leur est associé, et qui révèle, de la part de l’auteur, une instrumentalisation de la littérature à des fins politiques. / This work deals with the first six novels of the novelist, poet and ex-revolutionary from Nicaragua, Gioconda Belli. It explores three recurrent themes – Revolt, Revolution and Utopia – and endeavours to explain the reason for their obsessional presence. As intermediaries between the individual and the collective, these concepts require both a psychoanalytical and sociological perspective. These two academic disciplines thus constitute the main tools of the research, as well as social psychology, which deals indeed with the psychological processes at play in interpersonal relations. The underlying assumption is that commitment stems from the characters’ unstable identity at the beginning of each novel, and that the choice between Revolt, Revolution and Utopia depends upon the circumstances of the creation of these identities. To put this assumption to the test, our study tries to locate the marks of emotional deprivation in each protagonist, and analyses the identity processes which are likely to influence the determination to commit and the psychological mechanisms resulting from such decision. Yet, the quest for identity is not quenched by commitment and this puts into question the ideological function of Revolt, Revolution and Utopia in these novels. Hence, this study equally tries to determine the role of these three objects in Belli’s work. It considers their temporal dimension, which has both a diegetic and an ideological function, and studies the argumentative devices attached to them, revealing thus the author’s political instrumentalisation of literature.

[pt] Parece haver uma propensão humana à ficção. Uma propensão não apenas a ficcionalizar, mas também a submergir em ficções as mais variadas. Metamórfica como os mitos e próxima ao rumor que criou as cosmogonias mais antigas, a ficção é a raiz do erro mas também o começo de toda produção de pensamento. Wolfgang Iser compreende essa propensão ao outramento como um pressuposto antropológico básico. Em seus trabalhos teóricos, Ricardo Piglia entende a ficção como via prioritária para se pensar a política. Partindo do encontro dessas concepções, esta tese apresenta uma investigação acerca das múltiplas relações entre ficção, política e metafísica, privilegiando a literatura e seu embate com o desconhecido. Em uma escrita que alia especulação teórica e investigação fabuladora, a análise dessas relações tem como percurso as concepções históricas acerca do conceito de ficção; a literatura que é atravessada pelo excesso (como as divindades, a violência, o erotismo, o horror cósmico e demais experiências desestabilizadoras); a possível obsolescência do realismo burguês frente ao Antropoceno; as contribuições que a chamada virada ontológica pode trazer não somente para o conceito de ficção, mas também para a compreensão da experiência literária como um todo; e, por fim, as forças fictícias (termo que Piglia retira de Paul Valéry) que atravessam o socius, conduzindo ou não à servidão. Os ensaios que compõem esta tese são animados por uma vontade fúngica, trançando alianças demoníacas entre diferentes pensadores e oxidando as barreiras que mantinham separadas e estanques a ficção, a política e a metafísica. / [en] There seems to be a human penchant for fiction. A propensity not only to fictionalize, but also to submerge in the most varied fictions. Metamorphic like myths and close to the rumor that created the oldest cosmogonies, fiction is the root of error but also the beginning of all production of thought. Wolfgang Iser understands this propensity for otherness as a basic anthropological assumption. In his theoretical works, Ricardo Piglia understands fiction as a priority way to think about politics. Starting from the meeting of these conceptions, this thesis presents an investigation about the multiple relations between fiction, politics and metaphysics, privileging literature and its clash with the unknown. In a writing that combines theoretical speculation and fabulous investigation, the analysis of these relationships takes as its route the historical conceptualizations about the concept of fiction; literature that is crossed by excess (such as divinities, violence, eroticism, cosmic horror and other destabilizing experiences); the possible obsolescence of bourgeois realism in the face of the Anthropocene; the contributions that the so-called ontological turn can bring not only to the concept of fiction, but also to the understanding of literary experience as a whole; and, finally, the fictitious forces (a term that Piglia takes from Paul Valéry) that cross the socius, leading or not to servitude. The essays that make up this thesis are animated by a fungal will, weaving demonic alliances between different thinkers and oxidizing the barriers that kept fiction, politics and metaphysics separated.

Cette thèse propose une réflexion théorique à partir du concept de souveraineté et, plus précisément, de la notion d’exception qui est au centre d'une des tentatives les plus canonique de sa définition, celle de l’Allemand Carl Schmitt dans Théologie politique: «Est souverain celui qui décide de la situation exceptionnelle.» Nous commençons par y mettre en lumière certaines des relectures les plus marquantes de ce texte qui, tout au long du XXe siècle, s’établissent en un réseau de commentaires pensant le pouvoir, ses sources et les formes de ses manifestations mais aussi, encore qu’à distance, l’évolution d'une réflexion sur les politiques de la littérature et le type spécial de performativité rendu possible par le littéraire (en particulier ici: Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben, Peter Sloterdijk, Gilles Deleuze). Dans un second temps, la thèse fait sienne une perspective large (ancrée dans les études littéraires mais qui ne quitte pas les parages de la philosophie et de la théorie critique) pour analyser l’œuvre de Bernard-Marie Koltès choisie comme terrain d’exploration et de mise à l’essai des hypothèses du premier pan de la réflexion. En plus de participer à l’accroissement des connaissances quant à cette dernière œuvre (et plus particulièrement les textes dits «de jeunesse», sensiblement moins abordés par la critique), la thèse alimente une discussion en cours dans les études littéraires aujourd’hui en constatant, à son tour mais depuis un point de vue qui lui est propre, qu’en régime contemporain la question d’un agir social ou politique du texte littéraire dépasse largement l’interrogation sur les formes de l’engagement et peut moins que jamais se résoudre dans la seule figure théorique d'une relation stable entre des instances décisionnelles abstraites négociant, par et dans des énoncés de langage, le déploiement concret d’une action dans le monde. / This thesis proposes a theoretical reflection based on the concept of sovereignty and, more precisely, on the notion of exception which is at the center of one of the most canonical attempts of its definition, that of the German Carl Schmitt in Political Theology: “Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.” We begin by studying some of the most important readings of this text established, throughout the twentieth century, in a network of comments thinking about power, its origins and the forms of its manifestations but also, even though at a distance, about the evolution of a reflection on the politics of literature and the special type of performativity made possible by the literary (in particular here: Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben, Peter Sloterdijk, Gilles Deleuze). Then, the thesis takes a broad perspective (rooted in literature but not leaving the area of philosophy and critical theory) to analyze the work of Bernard-Marie Koltès (and more particularly the so-called texts of “youth,” much less studied). Hence the thesis aims to feed a long lasting argument within the literary studies as it notes, in its turn, but from its very own point of view, that in contemporary times the question of social or political action of the literary text goes far beyond the questioning of the forms of engagement, and can less than ever be solved solely in the theoretical figure of a stable relation between abstract decision-making bodies negotiating, by and in statements of language, the concrete deployment of an action in the world.

[pt] Esta dissertação tem como objetivo realizar uma leitura estético-política do romance Os Maias, escrito pelo romancista português Eça de Queirós (1845-1900). Trata-se de observar certas características formais da obra, tanto no seu âmbito descritivo (seu excesso descritivo, suas adjetivações pouco comuns) quanto no âmbito mais largo do enredo (sua profusão de tramas, suas alusões deslocadas à temas e formas da tragédia clássica) a partir disso, o objetivo é compreender um sentido político na maneira como esses elementos se articulam. A hipótese é de que Os Maias consiste, enquanto objeto estético, em uma imagem (uma apresentação sensível) da ideia de democracia, e permite compreendê-la como um princípio de igualdade radical desestabilizador de hierarquias. / [en] This dissertation aims to realize an aesthetic-political read of the novel The Maias, written by the portuguese writer Eça de Queirós (1845-1900). It intends to observe certain topics on the novel, in it s descritive scope (it s excess of descritive parts, it s non usual adjectivation) as well as in it s large fable scope (it s profusion of plots, it s displaced alusions to tragedy forms). Establishing that, the aim is to comprehend a political meaning in the way this elements articulate themselves. The hipothesys is that The Maias, as an aesthetic object, is an image (a sensible presentation) of the idea of democracy, that allows one to comprehend it as a principle of equality able to de-stabilize hierarchies.

Loin d’être un terme dépassé, « l’engagement » reste, au prix de certains élargissements, une notion opératoire pour l’analyse littéraire, tant en Occident que dans d’autres régions du monde. Repenser l’engagement littéraire comme la « dénonciation d’un inacceptable » permet de mettre au jour et de confronter les stratégies rhétorico-poétiques caractérisant la production littéraire d’auteurs contemporains aussi divers que Waris Dirie, Peter Handke, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Toni Morrison, Taslima Nasreen, Ben Okri, Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie et Luis Sepúlveda. Nous cherchons ainsi à mettre en évidence l’intégration par les textes étudiés d’éléments idéaux-typiques de l’engagement littéraire, de l’investissement auctorial à la confrontation au politique. Ces éléments, liés à des discours théoriques dont certains ont parcouru tout le vingtième siècle, sont examinés selon leurs différentes élaborations dans les textes. En effet, c’est en faisant évoluer certains de ses traits idéaux-typiques que les auteurs étudiés renouvellent l’engagement littéraire. On peut dès lors présenter celui-ci comme la dénonciation, pas systématiquement polémique, d’un inacceptable. Cette notion d’« inacceptable », qui suppose entre autres la construction textuelle d’un jugement moral, permet ainsi d’entreprendre non seulement une analyse transhistorique, qui déborde la conceptualisation sartrienne, mais également une approche transculturelle de l’engagement littéraire. / Far from being an outdated notion, "commitment" remains, with some enlargements, a valid concept for literary analysis, in the West as much as in other regions of the world. Rethinking literary commitment as the "denunciation of an unacceptable" allows us to unfold and compare the various rhetorical and poetic strategies characterizing the literary production of contemporary authors as diverse as Waris Dirie, Peter Handke, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Toni Morrison, Taslima Nasreen, Ben Okri, Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie and Luis Sepúlveda. We seek to highlight the ideal-typical elements of literary commitment in these texts, such as the authorial presence or the advocacy of certain political programmes. These elements are related to various theoretical discourses, some of which have traveled through the twentieth century. We examine their different patterns in the texts, showing that our authors renew literary commitment through the reorganization and alteration of its usual features. Thus, we define literary commitment as the denunciation of an unacceptable that is not necessarily polemical. The notion of "unacceptable", which implies the textual construction of a moral judgment, allows us not only to undertake a transhistorical analysis, which goes beyond the Sartrean conceptualization, but also to engage in a cross-cultural study of literary commitment.

Comment l’étude de la réception d’une littérature étrangère dans les revues – objets hybrides et fluides dont les spécificités essentielles sont l’inscription dans la durée et le rapport entretenu avec le temps historique, ainsi que le fait d’être le résultat polyphonique d’une création collective – permettrait-elle de dépasser les distinctions entre les approches de l’« esthétique de la réception » et de l’« histoire de la réception » (et encore, de la sociologie et de la sociopolitique), et entre les notions de « réception critique » et de « réception créatrice » ? Notre recherche, portant sur un corpus hétérogène composé de trente revues littéraires et politico-littéraires italiennes, s’est articulée autour de cette question. En s’appuyant sur les notions de transfert et de réseaux et en croisant les approches quantitative et qualitative des textes français, des traductions et des contributions critiques publiés dans les revues, notre travail vise à identifier les lieux et les modalités de la réception, ses évolutions et ses invariants après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. L’optique interdisciplinaire adoptée, s’attachant aux multiples facettes de ce phénomène, porte un nouveau regard sur les histoires croisées des littératures française et italienne, ainsi que sur l’activité des revues et les pratiques de la critique littéraire. En interrogeant les mécanismes par lesquels les revues s’approprient la littérature étrangère, ce sont les rapports qui existent entre la réception des œuvres littéraires, l’histoire d’un champ littéraire national et les facteurs extra-littéraires (historiques, politiques, idéologiques…) que nous nous proposons de sonder. / Being periodicals a hybrid and fluid object, whose essential particularities are periodicity and the relationship with historical time, as well as being the polyphonic results of a collective creation, how would the study of the reception of a foreign literature in periodicals allow to overcome the distinctions in approaches between the aesthetics of reception and the history of reception, and between the notions of critical reception and creative reception? My research focuses on this question through the analysis of a heterogeneous corpus of thirty Italian literary and politicalliterary periodicals. Building on the notions of “transfer” and “networks” and by crossing quantitative and qualitative approaches in the analysis of French texts, translations and criticism edited in the reviews, my research aims at identifying reception’s places and modalities, its evolutions and invariants after World War II. The interdisciplinary point of view adopted, focusing on the phenomenon’s many aspects, takes a new look on the intermingled histories of French and Italian literature, as well as on the periodicals’ activity and forms of literary criticism. By questioning the mechanisms through which periodicals adapt foreign literature, I aim at surveying the relationships between the reception of literary works, the history of a national literary field and the extraliterary factors (history, politics, ideologies…).

La rédaction de ce mémoire a été possible grâce à la bourse d’études supérieures du Canada (BESC M), Joseph-Armand-Bombardier du Centre de Recherche en Sciences Humaines (CRSH) du gouvernement du Canada, 2015. / Cette recherche est basée sur l’hypothèse suivante : la relation entre la société colombienne et la violence a été si constante et profonde que la nouvelle littérature du XXIe siècle est un produit de ce phénomène. Bien que les études académiques portant sur la littérature et la violence en Colombie soient si nombreuses, celles-ci ont été dirigées à l’analyse du violent comme étant un phénomène perturbateur de l’ordre social, que ce soit dès la Violence politique des années 50 et 60, ou bien dès la littérature du narco trafique dans les années 80 et 90. Toutefois, dans la littérature des générations plus récentes d’écrivains, la violence n’est pas nécessairement exercée par des acteurs « traditionnellement » violents qui portent atteinte à l’ordre social, mais ce supposé « ordre » social est déjà essentiellement violent, faisant de la violence une question symbolique, normalisée et profondément enracinée dans l’ensemble de la société. Donc, de quelle façon la violence « traditionnelle » a-t-elle mutée jusqu’à configurer la neo-violence d’aujourd’hui? Quelles sont ses caractéristiques? Mais, surtout, de quelle façon la littérature raconte-t-elle cette nouvelle violence? Le objectif de cette recherche est d’identifier ces nouvelles manifestations de la violence dans la littérature de la première décennie du XXIe siècle ayant été produites pour les écrivains nés pendant les années 70 et le début des années 80. La méthodologie, basée sur l’analyse de romans et de nouvelles d’écrivains colombiens de cette génération, cherche à établir comment la surexposition à une violence endémique a généré de nouvelles formes de voir, de percevoir, de sentir et de narrer le violent au-delà de la description de faits concrets de violence. / This research is based on the assumption that the relationship between the Colombian society and violence is so constant and deep that the new 21st century literature is the result of this phenomenon. Despite the fact that previous academic research on violence and literature in Colombia has largely addressed the topic, this same research has usually approached “violence” as a disruptive phenomenon having an impact on established social orders. That is the case of previous analysis addressing either the 1950s and 1960s’ La Violencia-based literature or the 1980s and 1990s’ drug trafficking literature. However, in the literature of the new generation of writers, violence is not necessarily practiced by traditionally violent actors who intentionally put social order at risk. This social order is in fact essentially violent, which turns violence into a symbolic, normalized, deeply rooted matter in society. Thus, how has “traditional” violence transformed into today’s neoviolence? Which are its attributes? Furthermore, how does literature tell this new violence’s story? The purpose of this research is to identify these new forms of violence made evident in the literature of the first decade of the 21st century that has been produced, in turn, by writers born between the 1970s and the 1980s. The methodology, based on the analysis of novels and short stories by Colombian writers from this period, seeks to establish how overexposure to endemic violence has resulted in new forms of seeing, perceiving, feeling and recounting violence beyond the accurate description of violent facts. / Si bien los estudios académicos sobre el tema de la literatura y la violencia en Colombia son bastante numerosos, estos han estado dirigidos al análisis de la violencia como un fenómeno perturbador del orden social, ya sea desde la Violencia política de los años 50 y 60, o bien desde la violencia del narcotráfico en los años 80 y 90. Sin embargo, en la literatura de las generaciones más jóvenes de escritores, la violencia no es necesariamente ejercida por actores tradicionalmente violentos que atenten contra el orden social, sino que este supuesto orden social es ya esencialmente violento, donde la violencia se manifiesta de manera simbólica, normalizada y profundamente enraizada en la vida social. La investigación se pregunta entonces, ¿de qué manera la violencia “tradicional” ha mutado hasta configurar la neo-violencia de hoy? ¿Cuáles son sus características? Pero, sobre todo, ¿de qué manera esta nueva violencia es contada por la literatura? El objetivo de esta investigación es el de identificar estas nuevas manifestaciones de la violencia en la literatura de la primera década del siglo XXI, producida por los escritores nacidos durante los años 70 e inicios de los años 80. La metodología se basa en el análisis de novelas y cuentos de escritores colombianos pertenecientes a esta generación, para establecer cómo la sobreexposición a una violencia endémica ha generado nuevas formas de ver, percibir, sentir y narrar lo violento más allá de la descripción de hechos concretos de violencia.