Plaisir du texte et imaginaire numérique de la littérature, à partir de François Bon

Abstract

There have never been so many books published (including literature), but the number of readers is far from increasing in the same proportion. Apparently, digital invasion in contemporary life imposed the end of the book, at least as we know it since Gutenberg, which does not necessarily mean the end of literary writing and reading, but rather their mutation, particularly accelerated. The work of François Bon, author, among others, of the Après le Livre (Seuil, 2011) and La Société des Amis de L'Ancienne Littérature (2020) essays, both born within his digital platform - www. tierslivre.net -, are the center of my article, which intends to highlight the proposals of this multimode author, because they represent the foundation of a linked literary writing-reading in digital age, as well theirs challenges to « the pleasure of the text », in order to a « rebirth » of the book as a multisensory composition of a widening distance from the world.