Politics in Olivia Rosenthal’s Éloge des bâtards

Author(s)

  • Denis Saint-Amand FNRS – NaLTT, University of Namur

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51777/relief13501

Keywords:

Olivia Rosenthal, Éloge des bâtards, politics, satire, activism

Abstract

As a resistance story, Olivia Rosenthal’s Éloge des bâtards builds up from the intertwined personal stories of the members of a small group of activists, as well as the actions that they plan, discuss, or carry out. The present article studies the ambivalence of this depiction of political action. It focuses on the effects and values conveyed by these portraits of a group and their collective means of action by comparing them both with previous works by Olivia Rosenthal and with other contemporary riot fictions (works by Nathalie Quintane or Sandra Lucbert, in particular), thus trying to understand the logics and politics of Rosenthal’s novel.

Author Biography

  • Denis Saint-Amand, FNRS – NaLTT, University of Namur

    Denis Saint-Amand is a research professor at the FNRS and a member of the Namur Institute of Language, Text and Transmediality (NaLTT), where he founded the Observatoire des Littératures Sauvages (OLSa). He is the co-director of the journals COnTEXTES and Parade Sauvage, and the author of several essays which develop a sociological approach of literature.

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Published

2022-12-19

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 2 (2022): Olivia Rosenthal: literature on the look-out

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Articles

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Copyright (c) 2022 Denis Saint-Amand

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How to Cite

“Politics in Olivia Rosenthal’s Éloge des bâtards” (2022) RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, 16(2), pp. 109–125. doi:10.51777/relief13501.