Le livre est tout le problème

The search into new ways of writing is confronted with certain obstacles, the foremost of which is that of the book and its conventions inherited from 536 years of existence. Yet, literature is by in large independent of the particular medium that is the book, as reminds us the age-old oral tradition or the contemporary research of the Oulipo. The incursion of the computer into literature has the important merit to have liberated it from the shackles of the book. The shattering of established points of references has essentially reintroduced all the issues at stake in the field of literature. In this way, the new medium emancipates the different possibilities of expression that opens up new areas of production, from the poetics of kinetics to combined, participative, hypertextuel, generative or spectacular literature, all this without taking account hitherto unknown forms of writing that are still to appear. MOTS-CLÉS : littérature, livre, texte, contextualisation, littérature informatique, médium numérique.