Diane Meur’s Les Vivants et les Ombres in the light of “unnatural” narratology

French

Resumen

This article aims to briefly present a dynamic branch of contemporary narrative studies, called “unnatural narratology”, taking the example of a Belgian French-language novel, published in 2007, namely Les Vivants et les Ombres, by Diane Meur. The author examines the non-human narrator of this text in order to identify his specificity, both at the level of his narrative practices and from the angle of his influence on the generic dimension of the text. The conclusion emphasizes the contemporary transformations of the historical novel, due in particular to the introduction of “unnatural” narrative instances that can be interpreted in the light of the posthumanist tendencies of contemporary culture and the characteristics of postmodern literature.