Inculte

Maylis de Kerangal, Mathias Énard, Joy Sorman, Hélène Gaudy, François Bégaudeau, Arno Bertina… If these writers are known and recognized today, we often ignore the fact that they are or have been members of the same literary group, the Inculte collective. First gathered around the Inculte magazine, then around the publishing house of the same name, the authors of this "variable geometry" collective forged their writing in this shared laboratory while producing an ambitious collective work, willingly profane, between documentary explorations, rock fictions, and potty humor. Against the alleged death of literary groups, but breaking with the avant-gardes of the last century, the incultes have invented an original way of being together and producing something common, without manifesto or leader, but in resonance with the political forms of our time.

"Le collectif Inculte : un groupe littéraire après le siècle des avant-gardes" is the first book to examine this history and to analyze, through interviews with its authors and a close reading of their individual and collective works, the posture and aesthetics of the most important literary group of the last thirty years in France.