Article: L'urbanisme en tant qu'élément de la stratégie de « bestsellerisation » du genre paralittéraire : le cas de Guillaume Musso
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2024
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Voždová, Marie
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Cet article traite d’un phénomène culturel répandu dans la littérature populaire française contemporaine, à savoir le best-seller romanesque moderne avec une intrigue criminelle. À partir de l’exemple du roman L’Appel de l’ange de l’auteur français Guillaume Musso, il définit les procédés qui conduisent au succès de l’ouvrage sur le marché international du livre. Ceux-ci incluent une histoire de crime bien construite, une tension, une relation amoureuse, des clichés d’époque et des éléments paratextuels. Cependant, parmi l’ensemble des éléments de bestsellerisation privilégiés par l’auteur, c’est l’urbanisme, comme science de l’espace, qui est compris et étudié en tant qu’élément de base renfermant tous les autres. Le paysage de la ville se présente en mouvement perpétuel où tous les moyens de transport modernes entrent en action et réaniment le territoire urbain. L’accentuation de la localisation de l’œuvre représente une des raisons de son succès sur le marché. Musso s’approprie les lieux des mégapoles et transcrit le mode de leur représentation et de leur perception. L’espace de la ville enveloppe les destins des personnages et cache le crime. L’article propose le regard géopoétique sur ces lieux du crime de l’univers de Guillaume Musso.
Urbanism as an element of the “bestsellerization” strategy of the paraliterary genre: the case of Guillaume Musso. The article deals with a widespread cultural phenomenon of contemporary French popular literature, the modern crime novel best-seller. Using the example of the novel L’Appel de l’ange by the currently successful French author Guillaume Musso, it defines the best-seller procedures by which the success of the work is achieved on the international book market. These include a well-constructed criminal story, tension, a love relationship, period clichés and paratextual elements. However, of all the components of bestsellerization to which the author tends, it is precisely urbanism that is understood and studied as the basic element that contains all the others. The city landscape is in perpetual motion where all modern means of transport come into action and reanimate the urban territory. The emphasis on the location of the work represents one of the reasons for its success on the market. Musso appropriates the places of megacities and transcribes the mode of their representation and perception. The space of the city envelops the destinies of the characters and hides the crime. The article offers a geopoetic look at these crime scenes in the world of Guillaume Musso.
Urbanism as an element of the “bestsellerization” strategy of the paraliterary genre: the case of Guillaume Musso. The article deals with a widespread cultural phenomenon of contemporary French popular literature, the modern crime novel best-seller. Using the example of the novel L’Appel de l’ange by the currently successful French author Guillaume Musso, it defines the best-seller procedures by which the success of the work is achieved on the international book market. These include a well-constructed criminal story, tension, a love relationship, period clichés and paratextual elements. However, of all the components of bestsellerization to which the author tends, it is precisely urbanism that is understood and studied as the basic element that contains all the others. The city landscape is in perpetual motion where all modern means of transport come into action and reanimate the urban territory. The emphasis on the location of the work represents one of the reasons for its success on the market. Musso appropriates the places of megacities and transcribes the mode of their representation and perception. The space of the city envelops the destinies of the characters and hides the crime. The article offers a geopoetic look at these crime scenes in the world of Guillaume Musso.
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francouzská literatura, knižní kultura, kriminální příběhy
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Paralittérature. Bestsellerisation. Urbanisme. Guillaume Musso, paraliteratura, urbanismus, Paraliterature. Best-selling. Urbanism. Guillaume Musso
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10.15452/SR.2024.24.0007
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CC BY-NC 4.0
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Studia Romanistica 24(1), 2024, 123-134