În jurul romanului politic. Teorii pro și contra

This paper looks into some of the questions raised around political fiction: should it be labelled a literary genre? if so, what definition best fits its vast and variegated territory? what subdivisions should we consider? can margins, like the social or the war novel, be relevant for the elaboration of its theory? While the French nouvelle critique and nouveau roman distanced themselves from the genre, as an epitome of the out-of-date Zhdanovist or existentialist committed literature, a rich Anglophone line of research addressed the matter, from Speare (1924) and Fisher (1928) to Suleiman (1993) and Scheingold (2010), reassessing, unpatronizingly, its active contribution to the construction and deconstruction of Western political imagination.