Abstract
Several contemporary novelists such as Virginie Despentes, Michel Houellebecq and, to a lesser extent, Maurice Dantec or Vincent Ravalec, successfully navigate between philosophical novels, science fiction and cyber-punk. Since the 1990s, they are tackling controversial subjects linked to the life of Generation X (voluntary prostitution, pornography, rape, drug addiction, terrorism, etc.).
Frequently accused of easy provocation, marginalized or censored at the beginning, most of them became laureates of the Goncourt Prize (Michel Houellebecq with La Carte et le Territoire in 2010) or even members of the Goncourt Academy (Virginie Despentes in 2016). The subject of the text is to study the role of music and cinema in the poetic work of these post-punk novelists.