La fabrique de la valeur dans les narrations françaises contemporaines Le cas de Pierre Michon, Pierre Bergounioux, Annie Ernaux et François Bon

Today’s literary production arouses numerous axiological debates. Some critics refuse to pronounce any explicit judgement on contemporary works’ aesthetical value. Others regularly blame contemporary literature for its indigent aesthetics, its poor political outlook and its withdrawal to formalism. But what about the question of value for the writers themselves? This article demonstrates how, for authors like Michon, Ernaux, Bergounioux and Bon, that question reveals a major aesthetical, political and sociological issue. Heirs of modernity, those contemporary writers base the literary value of their works on the originality of their approach and the marginality of their ideological and sociological place.