Introduction / Christiane Johnson & Ira D. Johnson -- Mr. Sammler's lesson / Jean-Pierre Vernier -- Aspects of the American picaresque in Little big man / Daniel Royot -- The heresy of Flannery O'Connor / Andre Bleikasten -- Narrative triangle and triple alliance : a look at the moviegoer / Simone Vauthier -- Rabbit underground / Yves Le Pellec -- New modes of story-telling : dismantling contemporary fiction / Andre Le Vot -- The exemplary fictions of Robert Coover / Regis Durand -- Genesis and functions of Hencher in The lime twig / Pierre Gault -- Nabokov's performative writing / Maurice Couturier -- Space and settor in short science fiction / Jacques Favier -- Portrait of an ideal critic / Robert Silhol