Le genre éditorial du roman feel-good (2015 – 2023) : analyse du phénomène littéraire en France, à travers « Le Parfum du bonheur est plus fort sous la pluie » de Virginie Grimaldi

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Supervisors

Glaude, Benoît

Faculty

Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres

Degree label

Master [120] en langues et lettres modernes, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée: sciences et métiers du livre

Abstract

enThe feel-good genre has enjoyed considerable success in France since the mid-2010s. This thesis attempts to understand its success by following the book chain and its participants: the author and the "persona" she or he embodies, the publishing house and the editorial marketing developed around the book-object, the booksellers, the public, and the critics. "Le parfum du bonheur est plus fort sous la pluie", a novel by the well-known feel-good author Virginie Grimaldi, illustrates more concretely the different characteristics of feel-good novels. This research analyses the feel-good as a literary and editorial genre, and as a media phenomenon. It contributes to recent academic research on the feel-good genre and demonstrates the interest of a literary perspective that takes into account the entire book chain, as well as the exemplarity of a successful author of the genre, Virginie Grimaldi, who has been little studied by academics until now.