Conférence plénière du XLVe Congrès de la SAES

I was asked to talk to this conference, I think, because the organisers considered I might be one of the few popular novelists who could contemplate something entitled Texte(s) contexte(s) hors-texte(s) without going weak at the knees. It may be they anticipated a talk about the writer’s art, and possibly wanted some account of the differences between writing as an academic and writing as a novelist, but I fear they are going to be somewhat disappointed: I am singularly unreflective about wha...