Description: At the origin of the text is its genesis. This work shows how genetic fictions are constructed, unknown even to the text. In short: genetics as fiction, both in the fact that it is at the origin of fiction and that it is fiction itself.
Brief description: Pierre Laforgue est professeur de litterature francaise a l'universite Bordeaux-Montaigne. Ses travaux portent sur le XIX siecle romantique, dont il essaie de mettre au jour la configuration sociocritique. Sa recherche s'attache principalement a Hugo, Balzac, Baudelaire et Stendhal.