Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Arts - Department of French

Since 1980, the literary scene in France has witnessed a revival of romance once made obsolete by the new novel (Nouveau roman). Realistic, social, musical, crime, spy and adventure fiction has thus sprung up again. The current study examines and questions the problematic of 2return3 especially the return of adventure fiction in the very representative work of Jean Echenoz. Thought reviving a classical genre, the author does not shy away from modifying and remodeling that genre{u2019}s configurations and issues. Thus, this survey elaborates a poetic of the postmodern fiction of adventures, revisiting a traditional genre to extract contemporary forms and issues, so to speak. But from a broader perspective, the study underscores the tribulations of echenoz{u2019}s fiction, work which does not mind to collapse plots, oscillate from one genre to another or sway between two space-times, at the risk of presenting itself in a turbulent mode of writing confounding the reader-who fells helpless in the face of the unbridled audacity of the author and his narrative perturbations

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