Abstract
The literary production dealing with climate change is an ideal ground for exploring the frontiers of literature, be they external (intersections with politics and scientific discourse) or internal (concerning the challenges that this hyper-object poses to the regimes of representation). After explaining why climate change would constitute un example of untellable object for the tradition of modern novel, we assess the original contribution of three representative authors of French science fiction (Jean-Marc Ligny, Dominique Douay et Claude Ecken) in the staging and dramatization of climate change.
This originality consists in the variation of spatial-temporal scales, the agentivity of non-humans, and the narrativization of scientific knowledge.