Anne-Marie Thiesse, La Fabrique de L’Ecrivain National, in Conversation with Claude Bernard

What is a national writer? Individual creator and recognized representative of a collective identity, he is the embodiment of an image of the nation through his work and through his person between literature and politics. In The Factory of the National Writer. Between literature and politics, Anne-Marie Thiesse went in search of this eminent figure, obvious, and of definition however uncertain. “Literary nation” among all, France is undoubtedly the one which has developed the closest relationship between the literary and the national.