''Nouvelles Mythologies'' is a collection of 57 texts written by authors, journalists and editorialists under the direction of

Jérôme Garcin Jérôme Garcin (born 4 October 1956) is a French journalist and writer. He heads the cultural section of the ''Nouvel Observateur'', produces and hosts the radio program ' on France Inter, and is a member of the reading committee of the Com� ...

and published in 2007 at

Éditions du Seuil Éditions du Seuil (), also known as ''Le Seuil'', is a French publishing house established in 1935 by Catholic intellectual Jean Plaquevent (1901–1965), and currently owned by La Martinière Groupe. It owes its name to this goal "The ''seuil' ...

to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of the essay ''

Mythologies Myth is a folklore genre consisting of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or origin myths. Since "myth" is widely used to imply that a story is not objectively true, the identification of a narrati ...

'' by

Roland Barthes Roland Gérard Barthes (; ; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popula ...

List of myths and their authors

* ''Le speed-dating'' by Nelly Arcan * ''

Michel Houellebecq Michel Houellebecq (; born Michel Thomas, 26 February 1956 or 1958) is a French author, known for his novels, poems and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker and singer. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer ...

'' by

Pierre Assouline Pierre Assouline (born 17 April 1953) is a French writer and journalist. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco to a Jewish family. He has published several novels and biographies, and also contributes articles for the print media and broadcasts for ...

* ''Les 35 Heures'' by

Jacques Attali Jacques José Mardoché Attali (; born 1 November 1943) is a French economic and social theorist, writer, political adviser and senior civil servant, who served as a counselor to President François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1991, and was the firs ...

* ''Le 20-Heure'' by

Marc Augé Marc Augé (born September 2, 1935 in Poitiers) is a French anthropologist. In an essay and book of the same title, ''Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity'' (1995), Marc Augé coined the phrase "non-place" to refer to s ...

* ''Le plombier Polonais'' by Nicolas Baverez * ''Le GPS'' by

Frédéric Beigbeder Frédéric Beigbeder (; born 21 September 1965) is a French writer, literary critic and television presenter. He won the Prix Interallié in 2003 for his novel ''Windows on the World'' and the Prix Renaudot in 2009 for his book ''Un roman françai ...

* ''Les journaux gratuits'' by

Patrick Besson Patrick Besson (born 1 June 1956) is a French writer and journalist. Life Besson was born of a half Russian father and a Croatian mother. He published his first novel, ''Early Mornings of Love'', in 1974, aged 17. A Communist sympathizer, Besson ...

* ''Les compagnies Low Cost'' by Bessora * ''La nouvelle ève'' by

Pascal Bruckner Pascal Bruckner (; born 15 December 1948, in Paris) is a French writer, one of the "New Philosophers" who came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s. Much of his work has been devoted to critiques of French society and culture. Biography Bruckner ...

* ''Le patch'' by

Boris Cyrulnik Boris Cyrulnik (birth 26 July 1937 in Bordeaux) is a French doctor, ethologist, neurologist, and psychiatrist. As a Jewish child during World War II, he was entrusted to a foster family for his own protection. In 1943 he was taken with adults in ...

* ''Les séries télévisées'' by Charles Dantzig * ''L'iPod'' by Angie David * ''

Zidane Zinedine Yazid Zidane (; born 23 June 1972), popularly known as Zizou, is a French professional football manager and former player who played as an attacking midfielder. He most recently coached Spanish club Real Madrid and is one of the mos ...

'' by Jacques Drillon * ''Le sushi'' by

Jean-Paul Dubois Jean-Paul Dubois (born 1950 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne) is a French journalist and author. He won the Prix Goncourt in 2019 for '' Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon'' ("All Men Do Not Inhabit This World in the Same Way"), ...

* ''La Star academy'' by Benoît Duteurtre * ''Les nouveaux amoureux'' by Christine Fiszcher * ''Le botox'' by Sophie Fontanel * ''Le commerce équitable'' by Francois Forrestier * ''La nouvelle chanson française'' by Thierry Gandillot * ''Le corps nu d'

Emmanuelle Béart Emmanuelle Béart (born 14 August 1963)
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'' by

* ''Les tentes rouges des SDF'' by Bernard Géniès * ''La capsule Nespresso'' by Alix Girod de l'Ain * ''Le voile'' by Patrick Grainville * ''Le SMS'' by Didier Jacob * ''La pensée unique'' by Denis Jeambar * ''Le 21 avril 2002'' by

Laurent Joffrin Laurent Joffrin (born 30 June 1952) is a French journalist and the editor of the newspaper '' Libération''.

* '' Kate Moss'' by Marc Lambron * ''Le déclinisme'' by Aude Lancelin * ''Le 11 septembre 2001'' by

Claude Lanzmann Claude Lanzmann (; 27 November 1925 – 5 July 2018) was a French filmmaker known for the Holocaust documentary film '' Shoah'' (1985). Early life Lanzmann was born on 27 November 1925 in Paris, France, the son of Paulette () and Armand Lanzmann. ...

* ''Le 4x4'' by David Le Breton * ''La fièvre de l'authentique'' by Gilles Lipovetsky * ''Le wifi'' by Alain Mabanckou * ''Les people'' by Patrick Mauriès * ''Google'' by

Jacques-Alain Miller Jacques-Alain Miller (; born 14 February 1944) is a psychoanalyst and writer. He is one of the founder members of the École de la Cause freudienne (School of the Freudian Cause) and the World Association of Psychoanalysis which he presided from ...

* ''La poussette surdimensionnée'' by

Catherine Millet Catherine Millet (; born 1 April 1948 in Bois-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French writer, art critic, curator, and founder and editor of the magazine '' Art Press'', which focuses on modern art and contemporary art. Biography Born in Bois-Col ...

* ''Arcelor et Mittal'' by Ghislaine Ottenheimer * ''La passion des sondages'' by Thierry Pech * ''Fumer tue'' by Emmanuelle Pierrat * ''Le football roi'' by

Bernard Pivot Bernard Pivot (; born 5 May 1935) is a French journalist, interviewer and host of cultural television programmes. He was chairman of the Académie Goncourt from 2014 to 2020. Biography Pivot was born in Lyon, the son of two grocers. During Worl ...

* ''Les OGM'' by Fabrice Pliskin * ''La mort de l'abbé Pierre'' by

Patrick Poivre d'Arvor Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (PPDA; né Patrick Jean Marcel Poivre, ; born 20 September 1947) is a French TV journalist and writer. He is a household name in France, and nicknamed "PPDA". With over 30 years and in excess of 4,500 editions of televis ...

* ''Le phènomène Ducasse'' by

Gilles Pudlowski Gilles Pudlowski (born 15 November 1950 in Metz, Moselle) is a French journalist, writer, literary and gastronomic critic of Polish descent. He writes the blog les Pieds dans le Plat', writes for ''Saveurs'', ''Cuisine et Vins de France'' and ''L ...

* ''Les bobos'' by Serge Raffy * ''Le blog'' by Patrick Rambaud * ''Le tailleur de Segolène'' by

Philippe Raynaud Philippe is a masculine sometimes feminin given name, cognate to Philip. It may refer to: * Philippe of Belgium (born 1960), King of the Belgians (2013–present) * Philippe (footballer) (born 2000), Brazilian footballer * Prince Philippe, Coun ...

* ''Le grand cabas de fille'' by Jacqueline Rémy * ''La gariguette'' by Jean-Marie Rouart * ''La racaille et le Karcher'' by Daniel Sibony * ''La smart'' by Yves Simon * ''L'euro'' by

Philippe Sollers Philippe Sollers (; born Philippe Joyaux; 28 November 1936) is a French writer and critic. In 1960 he founded the ''avant garde'' literary journal '' Tel Quel'' (along with writer and art critic Marcelin Pleynet), which was published by Le S ...

* ''Le digicode'' by François Taillandier * ''Le coaching'' by

Philippe Val Philippe Val (; born 14 September 1952) is a French journalist, singer, and comedian. He was a co-founder of the second iteration of '' Charlie Hebdo'', serving as the satirical political weekly's editor and director. After leaving ''Charlie H ...

* ''Parce que je le vaux bien'' par Georges Vigarello * ''La délocalisation'' by Paul Virilio * ''Le vélo en ville'' by Frédéric Vitoux * ''

Nicolas Hulot Nicolas Jacques André Hulot (; born 30 April 1955) is a French journalist and environmental activist. He is the founder and honorary president of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation, an environmental group established in 1990. Hulot ran as a candida ...

'' by Arnaud Viviant

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