La transfiction fantastique, le fantastique transgénérique : quelques remarques sur "Une lumière entre les arbres" de Jean-Pierre Andrevon

Abstract

The French fantastic literature of the first half of the 19 century is a hybrid genre (theoretical works of Charles Nodier, Didier de Hauranne, Jean-Jacques Ampère, Walter Scott). Toward the second half and the end of the 19th century the pure fantastic appears and dominates over other genres. However, in the 20th century some French writers revive the fantastic hybrid mode of writing. This is the case of Jean-Pierre Andrevon and her transgeneric novel Une lumière entre les arbres. The presence and the constant mix of many genres (like the fantastic, the gore, the Science fiction, the techno thriller, the horror) within the same novel enriches this text and does not destroy the effect of the pure fantastic because the hesitation, the ambiguity and the playing with fear are clearly visible in the contents and the writing technique. The future of the fantastic is paradoxically related to the return of its past.