Abstract
The manifesto Pour une littrature-monde en franais (Barbery et al. 2007) signed by 44 writers and published in Le Monde des livres on 16 March 2007, on the one hand, and the companion volume of essays Pour une littrature-monde (Le Bris et Rouaud 2007) published by Gallimard two months later, on the other hand, reveal significant internal contradictions pertaining to the key notion of world-literature in French. This article discusses in depth several such contradictions, of both an ideological-discursive and aesthetic nature, in order to identify their conceptual sources.
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