Romanesques

Récit d’enfance et romanesque

Volume editor Alain Schaffner Series edited by Christophe Reffait Series edited by Aurélie Adler

Book cover: Romanesques

Extent: 275 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Romanesques

Series volume number: 1

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(July 2026)

ISBN: 9782406211099

5.94 x 8.66 inches

Price: $48.00

In stock

The childhood narrative has long been considered, following the model of Rousseau’s Confessions, as merely one chapter of a life story and therefore necessarily autobiographical. However, since Charles Dickens and Jules Vallès, it has become clear that accounts of childhood often draw on fiction and the novelistic.

Alain Schaffner est professeur de littérature française à l’université Sorbonne Nouvelle, spécialiste du roman des XXe et XXIe siècles. Ses travaux explorent la fiction, le romanesque, le récit d’enfance, la littérature fantastique et l’animalité. Membre de l’UMR THALIM (CNRS), il a codirigé Marcel Bénabou archiviste de l’Infini (Paris, 2015) avec Christophe Reig.

  • Volume editor Alain Schaffner
  • Series edited by Christophe Reffait
  • Series edited by Aurélie Adler