Each novel fiche follows the same ten-chapter matrix: coordinates, reading note, back-cover pitch, currents and branches, style, major characters, creation context, reception, making-of and legacy.
This page works like a gallery. You can walk through the posters, browse by current, or use the alphabetical index. Each poster and each title leads to a full fiche.
First series of posters based on the same model as the homepage hero: dark background, space for the cover, coordinates, a short claim and toolbox chips (currents, branches, Labs). Click any poster to enter the fiche.
A quick overview of how the corpus spreads across the three main currents: Comedy of Everyday, Comedy of Crime and Neo-Nonsense.
Everyday comedy follows individuals struggling with families, institutions, workplaces, neighbours and codes of etiquette. Frustration, Winner, Code/Etiquette, Edge and Campus branches structure many of these novels.
These fiches insist on repetition, rituals, friction between language and social codes, and light forms of redemption.
Comedy of Crime treats fault, illegality and transgression as engines for humour: plans that go wrong, desperate improvisations, comic investigators, crews that sabotage themselves.
The fiches highlight schemers, hapless criminals, survivors, tricksters and comic investigators.
Neo-Nonsense emerges when grand narratives crack: science, technology and logic themselves become comic materials. Narration borrows from cinema, diagrams, games and philosophical thought experiments.
Fiches for this current insist on cinematic grammar, science as comic matter, object-characters, hypochondria and logical paradoxes.
Many novels circulate between currents: Everyday tinged with Crime, Crime that slowly drifts into Neo-Nonsense, or campus novels inflected by Edge comedy.
In the fiches, this is indicated by combined tags: for example Everyday → Frustration + Comedy of Crime or Neo-Nonsense with Edge branch.
The point is not to lock books into boxes, but to make explicit the main comic engines at work.
The novel fiches span several generations of modern comic fiction, from mid-20th-century campus novels and social satire to contemporary Neo-Nonsense and re-readings of canonical works.
1930s–1950s · Early modern comedy of manners and campus fiction (for instance The Code of the Woosters, Lucky Jim).
1960s · Post-war irony, workplace and bureaucratic satire, first comic vertigo of modern institutions.
1970s · Emergence of Edge tones, darker social comedies and early Neo-Nonsense tendencies.
1980s · Corporate satire, urban excess, crime farce and “big city” laboratories of comedy (for example Le Bûcher des vanités).
1990s · Globalised irony, post-Cold-War anxiety, hybrid forms between Everyday, Crime and Neo-Nonsense.
2000s · Digital environments, new media and financial logics entering comic structures.
2010s · Intensified focus on identity, bodies, health, and algorithmic environments as comic material.
2020s · Renewed interest in re-centering minor characters, AI-adjacent humour and late-stage Neo-Nonsense.
Alphabetical list of novels already mapped or in preparation. Each title uses its future fiche URL.
New titles will appear here as the atlas expands.