Le polar « de banlieue » comme scène de déploiement du malaise social français le cas des romans « dyonisiens » de Rachid Santaki

Abstract

The thriller tells daily explosive facts which take place, in most of the time, in a urban space. The authors describe, as the critics have observed, the most serious troubles in today’s society. Crimes, racism, trafficking, terrorism, theft, etc., all these crimes become the mark of an unbalanced world, a world in crisis. The “suburban”thriller, like suburban literature in general, circumscribes the scene in which the modern “misérables”clash. HLM, dangerous neighborhoods suffer because of urban disintegration, their inhabitants become victims of spatial and social dissolution. Rachid Santaki portrays in his novels young people who have lost their bearings, actors in a society where money is the only value, where violence is commonplace. In our contribution, we propose to see what are the different aspects of the French social malaise that Santaki denounces in the novels Flic ou Caillera(2013) and Les Princes du bitume(2017).