Meditate on the novel with Romain Gary in Pour Sganarelle

The article reflects on the act of writing and the act of reading as Romain Gary sees it in his essay Pour Sganarelle. Milan Kundera’s considerations on the “elementary possibilities of the novelist” serve as a starting point. In order to contribute to a ‘collective consciousness'’, Gary tells stories by 'meditating' on his novel and his characters. In its structure, La Danse de Gengis Cohn is an exemplary novel of his literary project.