In this first essay devoted to Christian Prigent's literary work, the author's decisive opposition between "réel" and reality serves as a guiding principle for analysing a theory and practice of literature that has been developing for almost fifty years.

This book explores the role played by maps and mapping in the writings of Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau was a professional surveyor and he had a deep and intimate knowledge of the history of cartography and of mapping practices. This work is based on a thorough archival investigation to locate and identify the maps that Thoreau used.

The works of Aragon and Ponge, major figures of 20th century literature, are the subject of this first systematic confrontation The reflection focuses on a relationship to language, to the revolutionary and perhaps, beyond supposed ideologies, to providing the human dimension.

The aim of the present study is to use Robert Louis Stevenson's works as an hermeneutical model to reconsider part of the story of the Latin American literature during the twentieth century. The study is a comparison between Stevenson's theorical and fictional works and those of Bioy Casares, Borges and Cortázar from 1935 to 1955.

This volume brings together a series of contributions in homage to Nicole Jacques-Lefèvre who was a major figure in the development of literature research at the ENS in Fontenay-Saint-Cloud in the last quarter of the twentieth century.This work also offers the dynamic image of a current stream of literary studies