LA REPRODUCTION SOCIALE DANS LE ROMAN LEURS ENFANTS APRÈS EUX DE NICOLAS MATHIEU.

In the novel And Their Children After Them, Prix Goncourt 2018, Nicolas Mathieu points out the transmission of behavioral patterns from parents to their children. With his characters and his literary process, he views this phenomenon from an almost sociological standpoint. It would be unthinkable to approach this subject without mentioning Pierre Bourdieu and his analysis of the mechanisms of social reproduction. In doing so, we will therefore use Bourdieu's terminology: habitus, capital, field, illusio, etc. This cross-reading will allow us to see to what extent this bildungsroman illustrates the theory of the famous sociologist. The fact that the author himself refers to Bourdieu further justifies our approach. In the novel, Mathieu draws a portrait of France on the outskirts in the throes of deindustrialisation in the 1990s, with representatives of different social classes as protagonists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]