''Nouvelles Mythologies'' is a collection of 57 texts written by authors, journalists and editorialists under the direction of

Jérôme Garcin Jérôme Garcin (born 4 October 1956) is a French journalist and writer. He heads the cultural section of the ''Nouvel Observateur'', produces and hosts the radio programme ' on France Inter, and is a member of the reading committee of the Co ...

and published in 2007 at

Éditions du Seuil Éditions du Seuil (), also known as Le Seuil, is a French publishing house established in 1935 by Catholic intellectual Jean Plaquevent (1901–1965), and currently owned by La Martinière Groupe. It owes its name to this goal "The ''seuil'' (th ...

to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of the essay ''

Mythologies Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society. For scholars, this is very different from the vernacular usage of the term "myth" that refers to a belief that is not true. Instead, the ...

'' by

Roland Barthes Roland Gérard Barthes (; ; 12 November 1915 – 25 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popu ...

List of myths and their authors

* ''Le speed-dating'' by

Nelly Arcan Nelly Arcan (March 5, 1973 – September 24, 2009) was a Canadian novelist. Arcan was born Isabelle Fortier at Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Lac-Mégantic in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Biography Arcan's first novel ''Putain'' (2001; English: '' ...

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Michel Houellebecq Michel Houellebecq (; born Michel Thomas on 26 February 1956) is a French author of novels, poems, and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker, and singer. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. H ...

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Pierre Assouline Pierre Assouline (born 17 April 1953) is a French writer and journalist. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco to a Jewish family. He has published several novels and biographies, and also contributes articles for the print media and broadcasts for ...

* ''Les 35 Heures'' by

Jacques Attali Jacques José Mardoché Attali (; born 1 November 1943) is a French economic and social theorist, writer, political adviser and senior civil servant. A very prolific writer, Attali published 86 books in 54 years, between 1969 and 2023. Atta ...

* ''Le 20-Heure'' by

Marc Augé Marc Augé (; 2 September 1935 – 24 July 2023) was a French anthropologist. In an essay and book of the same title, ''Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity'' (1995), Augé coined the phrase " non-place" to refer to sp ...

* ''Le plombier Polonais'' by

Nicolas Baverez Nicolas or Nicolás may refer to: People Given name * Nicolas (given name) Mononym * Nicolas (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian footballer * Nicolas (footballer, born 2000), Brazilian footballer Surname Nicolas * Dafydd Nicolas (c.1705–1774), ...

* ''Le GPS'' by

Frédéric Beigbeder Frédéric Beigbeder (; born 21 September 1965) is a French writer, literary critic and television presenter. He won the Prix Interallié in 2003 for his novel '' Windows on the World'' and the Prix Renaudot in 2009 for his book '' A French Nov ...

* ''Les journaux gratuits'' by

Patrick Besson Patrick Besson (born 1 June 1956) is a French writer and journalist. Life Besson was born of a half-Russian father and a Croatian mother. He published his first novel, ''Early Mornings of Love'', in 1974, at age 17. A Communist sympathizer, Bes ...

* ''Les compagnies Low Cost'' by Bessora * ''La nouvelle ève'' by

Pascal Bruckner Pascal Bruckner (; born 15 December 1948 in Paris) is a French writer, one of the " New Philosophers" who came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s. Much of his work has been devoted to critiques of French society and culture. Biography Bruckne ...

* ''Le patch'' by

Boris Cyrulnik Boris Cyrulnik (born 26 July 1937 in Bordeaux) is a French doctor, ethologist, neurologist, and psychiatrist. As a Jewish child during World War II, he was entrusted to a foster family for his own protection. In 1943 he was taken with adults ...

* ''Les séries télévisées'' by

Charles Dantzig Charles Dantzig is a French author, born in Tarbes (France) on October 7, 1961. Early life and career Charles Dantzig decided to study Law after his baccalauréat. Having completed a doctorate in Law from the university of Toulouse, he moved to ...

* ''L'iPod'' by Angie David * ''

Zidane Zinedine Yazid Zidane (; ; ''Zineddin Lyazid Zidan''; ; born 23 June 1972), popularly known as Zizou, is a French professional football manager and former player who played as an attacking midfielder. He most recently coached La Liga club Real ...

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Jacques Drillon Jacques Drillon (25 June 1954 – 25 December 2021) was a French journalist and writer. He studied literature and cinema in Nancy and Metz and earned a doctorate in linguistics in 1993 with the thesis ''La loi formelle et son influence sur la cr ...

* ''Le sushi'' by Jean-Paul Dubois * ''La Star academy'' by

Benoît Duteurtre Benoît Duteurtre () (20 March 1960 – 16 July 2024) was a French novelist and essayist. He was also a musical critic, musician, producer and host of a radio show about music. He spent his time between Paris, New York and Normandy. Background ...

* ''Les nouveaux amoureux'' by Christine Fiszcher * ''Le botox'' by Sophie Fontanel * ''Le commerce équitable'' by Francois Forrestier * ''La nouvelle chanson française'' by Thierry Gandillot * ''Le corps nu d'

Emmanuelle Béart Emmanuelle Béart (born 14 August 1963)
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* ''Les tentes rouges des SDF'' by Bernard Géniès * ''La capsule Nespresso'' by Alix Girod de l'Ain * ''Le voile'' by

Patrick Grainville Patrick Grainville (; born 1 June 1947 Villers-sur-Mer, Calvados) is a French novelist. He spent his childhood in Villerville, a small town east of Deauville. An associate professor of letters, he received the Prix Goncourt in 1976, 29 years ...

* ''Le SMS'' by Didier Jacob * ''La pensée unique'' by

Denis Jeambar Denis Jeambar (born 1948 in Valréas) is a French journalist. Biography Having started his career at ''Paris-Match'' in 1970, he joined ''Le Point'' in 1972, rising to chief of its political staff in 1981. In 1988 he became editor-in-chief, as ...

* ''Le 21 avril 2002'' by

Laurent Joffrin Laurent Joffrin (born 30 June 1952) is a French journalist and the editor of the newspaper ''Libération''.

* ''

Kate Moss Katherine Ann Moss (born 16 January 1974) is an English model. Arriving towards the end of the "supermodel era", Moss rose to fame in the early 1990s as part of the heroin chic fashion trend. Her collaborations with Calvin Klein brought her t ...

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Marc Lambron Marc Lambron (; born 4 February 1957 in Lyon) is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 1993, for ''L'Oeil du silence''. Bibliography * ''Les Menteurs'' * ''L'Impromptu de Madrid'', (Flammarion, 1989) * ''L'Œil du silence'' (1993) * '' ...

* ''Le déclinisme'' by

Aude Lancelin Aude Lancelin (; born 7 June 1973, Tours) is a French journalist. She was previously deputy editor-in-chief at two prominent French weekly magazines: ''Marianne (magazine), Marianne'' from 2011 to 2014 and ''L'Obs'' from 2014 to 2016. She joined ...

* ''Le 11 septembre 2001'' by

Claude Lanzmann Claude Lanzmann (; 27 November 1925 – 5 July 2018) was a French filmmaker, best known for the Holocaust documentary film ''Shoah'' (1985), which consists of nine and a half hours of oral testimony from Holocaust survivors, without historical f ...

* ''Le 4x4'' by David Le Breton * ''La fièvre de l'authentique'' by

Gilles Lipovetsky Gilles Lipovetsky (; born 24 September 1944) is a French philosopher, writer, and sociologist. Life and career Lipovetsky was born in Millau in 1944. He studied philosophy at the University of Paris, and participated in the 1968 student upri ...

* ''Le wifi'' by

Alain Mabanckou Alain Mabanckou (born 24 February 1966) is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic, a French citizen born in the Republic of the Congo, he is currently a Professor of Literature at UCLA. He is best known for his novels and non-fiction writing ...

* ''Les people'' by

Patrick Mauriès Patrick may refer to: *Patrick (given name), list of people and fictional characters with this name *Patrick (surname), list of people with this name People *Saint Patrick (c. 385–c. 461), Christian saint *Gilla Pátraic (died 1084), Patrick or ...

* ''Google'' by

Jacques-Alain Miller Jacques-Alain Miller (; born 14 February 1944) is a psychoanalyst and writer. He is one of the founding members of the École de la Cause freudienne (School of the Freudian Cause) and the World Association of Psychoanalysis which he presided fr ...

* ''La poussette surdimensionnée'' by

Catherine Millet Catherine Millet (; born 1 April 1948) is a French writer, art critic, curator, and founder and editor of the magazine ''Art Press'', which focuses on modern art and contemporary art. Biography Born in Bois-Colombes, France, she is best known ...

* ''Arcelor et Mittal'' by Ghislaine Ottenheimer * ''La passion des sondages'' by Thierry Pech * ''Fumer tue'' by Emmanuelle Pierrat * ''Le football roi'' by

Bernard Pivot Bernard Pivot (; 5 May 1935 – 6 May 2024) was a French journalist, interviewer and host of cultural television programmes. He was chairman of the Académie Goncourt from 2014 to 2020. Biography Pivot was born in Lyon on 5 May 1935, the son o ...

* ''Les OGM'' by Fabrice Pliskin * ''La mort de l'abbé Pierre'' by

Patrick Poivre d'Arvor Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (PPDA; né Patrick Jean Marcel Poivre, ; born 20 September 1947) is a French TV journalist and writer. He is a household name in France, and nicknamed "PPDA". With over 30 years and in excess of 4,500 editions of televis ...

* ''Le phènomène Ducasse'' by

Gilles Pudlowski Gilles Pudlowski (born 15 November 1950 in Metz, Moselle) is a French journalist, writer, literary and gastronomic critic of Polish descent. He writes the blog ''les Pieds dans le Plat'', writes for ''Saveurs'', ''Cuisine et Vins de France'' and ...

* ''Les bobos'' by Serge Raffy * ''Le blog'' by

Patrick Rambaud Patrick Rambaud (born 21 April 1946) is a French writer. Life Born in Paris, France, with Michel-Antoine Burnier, he wrote forty pastiches (satirical novels). He wrote ''Le Journalisme sans peine'' (Editions Plon, 1997). In 1970, he helped found ...

* ''Le tailleur de Segolène'' by Philippe Raynaud * ''Le grand cabas de fille'' by Jacqueline Rémy * ''La gariguette'' by

Jean-Marie Rouart Jean-Marie Rouart (born 8 April 1943 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French novelist, essayist and journalist. He was elected to the Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institu ...

* ''La racaille et le Karcher'' by Daniel Sibony * ''La smart'' by Yves Simon * ''L'euro'' by

Philippe Sollers Philippe Sollers (; born Philippe Joyaux; 28 November 1936 – 5 May 2023) was a French writer and critic. In 1960 he founded the '' avant garde'' literary journal '' Tel Quel'' (along with writer and art critic Marcelin Pleynet), which was pu ...

* ''Le digicode'' by

François Taillandier François Taillandier (born in 1955, Clermont-Ferrand, France) is a French writer portraying the French contemporary society. Life Henri Vernes, creator of Bob Morane, fired a passion the 12-year-old Taillandier was not going to give up. In 1968 ...

* ''Le coaching'' by

Philippe Val Philippe Val (; born 14 September 1952) is a French journalist, singer, and comedian. He was a co-founder of the second iteration of ''Charlie Hebdo'' in 1992, serving as the satirical political weekly's editor and director. After leaving ''Char ...

* ''Parce que je le vaux bien'' par Georges Vigarello * ''La délocalisation'' by

Paul Virilio Paul Virilio (; 4 January 1932 – 10 September 2018) was a French Culture theory, cultural theorist, Urban planning, urbanist, architect and aesthetic philosopher. He is best known for his writings about technology as it has developed in relation ...

* ''Le vélo en ville'' by Frédéric Vitoux * ''

Nicolas Hulot Nicolas Jacques André Hulot (; born 30 April 1955) is a French journalist and environmental activist. He is the founder and honorary president of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation, an environmental group established in 1990. Hulot ran as a candid ...

'' by Arnaud Viviant

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