The problematic community Reflections on the contemporary representation of the romanesque

In the wake of György Lukács’s propositions about the novel as the genre of the problematic individual, certain contemporary fictions, haunted by the search for a community (Laurent Mauvignier, Maylis de Kerangal, Arno Bertina), are constantly coming up with narrative and enunciative solutions to express the paradoxical link between the individual and the collective.