Abstract EN:

Far from limiting itself to the XVIIth century, the Baroque in literature may be regarded as a heterochronic notion leading the New Novel. Contrary to the image of a fuzzy set gathering diverse writers, the esthetics of the new Baroque enables us to define these novelists as being a literary group with a homogeneous textual identity, and can be considered the very possibility for the New Novel to exist. The diachronic eras gather into a synchronic game which first settles a rhetoric of the otherness and claims an ontology of the nothingness as in the literature of the baroque era. The unravelled characters are compelled to wander in a space which represents the moving macrocosm ruled by a world being a stage. Through these mimetic issues, the trompe-l'oeil reign unfolds a misology of the fiction questionning the virtualities of assertion. Therefore, writing shivers in its core, judges itself in a double gesture that squares its power, and shows off, just as the baroque peacock does, a conspicuous overload. Eventually, the era of suspicion would go back to the baroque age.