Abstract

This year’s essay on the contemporary novel centers on the extraordinary events for French culture which occurred in 2014. The most obvious is the awarding of the Nobel Prize to Patrick Modiano just a few years after J.M.G. Le Clézio was accorded the same honor. In addition, the French literary prizes were given to novels of more than usual interest. At the same time, La Quinzaine littéraire, which floundered a bit after the death of its editor, Maurice Nadeau, successfully emerged from a period of uncertainty as the Nouvelle Quinzaine littéraire.

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