Distinction between science and literature

Serres, Michel. Feux et signaux de brume, Zola, Grasset, 1975. Though his work hasn’t encountered the same success abroad as Foucault or Derrida, Michel Serres is part of the same generation of thinkers, who started publishing from the 1960s, and still is one of France’s leading intellectuals. In this book, Serres proves a precursor in challenging the distinction between science and literature, as his reading of Zola’s Rougon-Macquart cycle points out the presence of scientific patterns in t..