L'écrivain polygraphe: Une réalité méconnue de l'histoire littéraire.

The notion of polygraphy is little used in the literary field. It is often perceived as a pejorative qualification: the polygraph is a writer who dissipates himself between several genres, who cannot concentrate on the essential, on what he can do best. In reality, the situation is quite different. It is the critics who tend to reduce authors to one part of their activity: Alexandre Dumas to the historical novel, or Simenon to writing crime novels. The article looks at three examples: the writer-journalist Charles Monselet in the nineteenth century, the media reporter and best-selling author Joseph Kessel in the first half of the twentieth century, and the contemporary writer, art critic and scriptwriter Caroline Lamarche. Each of these authors has put into circulation a wide variety of texts, some of which have been classified as literary. It is by recognising this polygraphy that we can analyse their literary careers (trad. deepl). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]