Abstract EN:

1. The "universe-book" presents a structured world with condensed and original components from which it keeps up the interest after even several readings. It draws on many sources that is to say the space opera and the planetary romance, the themes of the history of the future and the galactic empire, the hard science that confers on the "universe-book" 's world a likelihood background. 2. The systemic approach gives an analogy between a system and a "universe-book". The world universe is considered as an autonomous whole, made up of various meaningful elements whose interactivity forms the world system. This one is divided into three spheres (cosmosphere, biosphere, noosphere). The "universe-book" can be easily compared to a game with rules fairly set up, a virtual space, a political development, a taste for magnification and excessiveness. 3. Consequently to the setting of the patent elements of the story (the typical characters, the scenery, the bestiary, economics, politics and religion), interactions aim at exertion. The standard themes of the science fiction genre also feed the world system to the detriment of a certain denaturation. 4. The "universebook" is considered as an artistic expression of the world and as an interpretation of the universe as well, whose elements are closely connected. The long maturation, the preponderance of the lexical variety, the narative scheme which can be multilinear or composite, the baroque trend, converge towards a vision that favours complexity and at the same time a manifold apprehension of reality that marks the modern novel's features. Each "universe-book" shows the point of view of its author's reality. F. Herbert develops an ecological philosophy based upon the continuous adaptation of groups to the outside and inside world. B. Aldiss reveals a tendancy to sociobiologism which is also perceptible in s. Wul's works but in a more distorted manner through a poetic depiction of the world.