Each novel guide 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 guide.
First poster series for the home gallery. Click any poster to open the full guide.
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 and etiquette, edge and campus branches structure many of these novels.
These guides 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 guides 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.
Guides for this current insist on cinematic grammar, science as comic matter, object characters and logical paradoxes.
Many novels circulate between currents. Everyday tinged with crime. Crime that slowly drifts into Neo Nonsense. Campus novels inflected by edge comedy.
In practice, a single book can answer several locks at once. Everyday, crime and Neo Nonsense can all help to light up the same text, depending on which key you use first.
The point is not to lock books into boxes, but to show how different currents and branches can be combined to make their comic mechanics legible.
The novel guides span several generations of modern comic fiction, from mid century campus novels and social satire to contemporary Neo Nonsense and re readings of canonical works.
1930s to 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.
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. Links use your file naming rule: fiche-xxxx.html, plus the two specials (fichewilt.html, fichesmallworld.html).
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