Le roman d'énigme et ses liens avec le roman de la mémoire dans Austerlitz de W. G. Sebald

This paper will show that W. G. Seebald who was a great and broad reader fuses popular literature (in this case the “Detective novel”) and canonical literature (with references to Balzac’s Colonel Chabert) in order to create in his last unfinished piece of prose fiction a great “novel of memory”.