Le roman policier de Suisse romande: penser la société d’aujourd’hui
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Sylvie Jeanneret [1]
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[1] University of Fribourg
University of Fribourg
Friburgo, Suiza
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- Localización: Au croisement des cultures, des discours et des langues. Cent ans d'études romanes à l'Université de Varsovie (1919-2019) / Wieslaw Kroker (dir.), Judyta Zbierska-Moscicka (dir.), Vol. 1, 2021 (Études Littéraires), ISBN 978-83-235-5262-8, págs. 111-122
- Idioma: francés
- Títulos paralelos:
- Contemporary crime fictions of French-speaking parts of Switzerland: to think about the today’s world
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Resumen
Contemporary crime fictions (in French: “romans policiers” or, short, “polars”) have proven to be a particularly effective framework for experimenting with the reader’s involvement in literary writings critical of their times. The “polar” makes us think about the injustices of today’s world, its violence and the new forms of human relationships they produce. My argument is based on the work of two Swiss francophone writers – Nicolas Verdan (1971-) and Sébastien Meier (1988-) – with a particular focus on their use of the figure of the anti-hero, their interest in regional specificities of the French-speaking parts of Switzerland and their critical stanceon contemporary society. If the close attention the writers pay to mechanisms of social and economic domination is historically a leitmotiv of the genre, the “polar” we are interested in testifies to an almost obsessive desire for justice which takes the form of an ethical posture calling on us to engage with the troubling universe its fictions recreate.
