Révoltes et débâcles dans la fiction contemporaine française : regards réfléchis sur les soulèvements dans "Rue des voleurs" (2012) de Mathias Énard et "Les Grands" (2014) de Sylvain Prudhomme

Rue des voleurs by Mathias Énard and Les Grands by Sylvain Prudhomme share the same narrative structure to embody contemporary uprisings and to raise the question of their failures : a parallel is set between two insurrections, the Arab Spring and the Spanish Indignados Movement in Énard's work, the fight for Independence in the 60's in Guinea-Bissau and the 2012 elections in the same country in Prudhomme's novel. This paper analyzes how these parallels indicate the unfinished state of uprisings – and the need to pursue such political fights – more than a defeat of revolutions since the last century. Thereby, these fictions refuse to sanctify revolutions as well as they highlight the critical dimension of uprisings in the political sphere.