Éric Laurrent (born 1966 in

Clermont-Ferrand Clermont-Ferrand (, , ; or simply ; ) is a city and Communes of France, commune of France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regions of France, region, with a population of 147,284 (2020). Its metropolitan area () had 504,157 inhabitants at the 2018 ...

) is a contemporary French writer.

Work

His work, begun in 1995 with ''Coup de foudre'', is distinct from other works of the

postmodern Postmodernism encompasses a variety of artistic, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break from modernism. They have in common the conviction that it is no longer possible to rely upon previous ways of depicting the wo ...

generation by a style that could be described as manierist or baroque. Like other postmodern authors, Eric Laurrent practices

intertextuality Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text, either through deliberate compositional strategies such as quotation, allusion, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche or parody, Gerard Genette (1997) ''Paratexts'p.18/ref ...

abundantly, using each of his novels not as a rewriting of a classical work, but more as a burlesque tribute to the world's literary heritage. Thus, for example, the spy novel ''Les atomiques'', his second novel (1996), plays on a re-reading of the

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. Intertextuality can, in some cases, come more from intermediality, as in the case of his first novel, built around the presence in the hollow of the painting ''

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'' by

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Publications

*1995: ''Coup de foudre'', novel ( Éditions de Minuit) –

Prix Fénéon The Fénéon Prize (''Prix Fénéon''), established in 1949, is awarded annually to a French-language writer and a visual artist no older than 35 years of age. The prize was established by Fanny Fénéon, the widow of French art critic Félix Fén ...

*1996: ''Les Atomiques'', novel (Minuit) *1997: ''Liquider'', novel (Minuit) *1999: ''Remue-ménage'', novel (Minuit) *2000: ''Dehors'', novel (Minuit) *2002: ''Ne pas toucher'', novel (Minuit) *2004: ''À la fin'', novel (Minuit) *2005: ''Clara Stern'', novel (Minuit) *2008: ''Renaissance italienne'', novel (Minuit) *2011: ''Les Découvertes'', novel (Minuit) – Prix Wepler. *2014: ''Berceau'', narration (Minuit) *2016: ''Un beau début'', novel (Minuit) –

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.''Un beau parcours pour Éric Laurrent''
by Amélie Cooper on the site of '' Le Magazine Littéraire'' 7 April 2016.

References

External links

''Un beau début''
on ''

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''Éric Laurrent et la pin-up de “Dreamgirls”''
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''Un beau début''
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