Mathias Enard et l'erudition du roman

Depuis plus de dix ans, les romans de Mathias Enard connaissent un succes qui ne se dement pas. La Perfection du tir en 2003, mais aussi Zone en 2008, Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'elephants en 2010 et Rue des voleurs en 2012 ont remporte des prix litteraires de grand renom. Enfin, le jury du prix Goncourt a opte en 2015 avec Boussole pour un roman dans lequel l'imagination romanesque a pour support une epoustouflante erudition portant sur l'Orient. Ce volume cherche a eclairer les modalites narratives qui permettent a l'auteur de transformer l'erudition en roman, mais aussi a situer son uvre dans le contexte litteraire actuel. Over the past ten years the novels of Mathias Enard have enjoyed both widespread critical acclaim and commercial success. In 2015 Enard was awarded the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize, for Compass, a work which explores the fraught and often fruitful relationship between Europe and the Orient through the musings of an Austrian musicologist. Yet in spite of these successes, and Mathias Enard's penchant for filling his novels with historical fact, little has been written about his work in academic circles. This volume seeks to fill that gap and shed light on the narrative modalities that allow the author to transform erudition into narration. It also seeks to situate his work in the current literary context, which is being shaped ever more by historical narratives.