« C’est une sorte de tirage que le tirage de la voix » of Het literaire interview: tussenliterair discours en massmedia.Een genre-onderzoek (Franse pers en radio, 1891-1968) « C’est une sorte de tirage que le tirage de la voix » or The Literary Interview: Between Literary Discourse and Mass Media.Genre Issues (French press and radio, 1891-1968)

The research focuses on the figure of the writer when he is interviewed. In the newspaper, at the end of the 19th century in France, and on the radio, from the 1920s on, people of letters express themselves in a dialogue with a representative of the media. The writer, just like the journalist, finds himself at the crossroads of media and literary discourses.

In the line of discourse analysis, the thesis considers the writer's interview from the point of view of the effects of genericity that it produces throughout its history. This research path leads to a double approach, historical and conceptual, of the variations of literary discourse through the media practice of writers.

The central thesis is that the particular staging of each writer's interview is a decisive factor in the genericity effects of the practice. This is because negotiations take place that manage the amplitude of the deviations from a supposed standard practice. The negotiated interview will be more or less conventional.

From this point of view, the notion of the writer's style proves to be particularly operative to account for the studied phenomena. As a doxic device, the style of the man or woman of letters exceeds the intrinsic qualities of the texts produced. It involves the values claimed by the author, his aesthetic posture, his position in the literary field. The cardinal place given to this notion in the research is due to the fact that it allows a kind of synthesis, embracing together, among others, the questions of negotiation, which involve the figuration of the writer and the adjustment of his production, of symbolic operativity of the media communication, which refers to the social and political stakes of a historically situated subject, by connecting them to the examination of the effects of material rhetoric proper to the interview.