Dialectique négative du Nouveau Roman

This paper studies the New Novel’s rhetoric (Nouveau Roman) in order to requalify, thanks to a dialectical approach, its positive definition in a negative way. Through a philosophical critique of the novelistic discourse, the aim is to highlight the theoretical power of novels which pay attention, in a rhetorical perspective, to the body thematic, body considered as a fundamental and fully component of a subjectivity determined by material and external structures. The New Novel, analysed first as an expression of a "sensible objectivity", gives rise to a materialist and negative dialectic and has to be understood as an immanent critique of social, political and historical structures.