Conte romanesque, chant-roman: postures de la figure auctoriale chez Maurice Bandaman et Werewere Liking

What is the connection between the author figure and the genre? Contrary to a widespread idea, the generic mention is not a petrified venue. Indeed, from the mention of song-novel in Elle sera de jaspe et de corail and La mémoire amputée by Werewere Liking to that of novelistic tale in Le fi/s de-la-femme-male or that of the novel in L\u27État Z\u27héros by Maurice Bandaman, this study shows that, by a play of permanent negotiation of the limits of their fictional status, the writer and the storyteller, figures of the author, produce hybrid genres. The practice summons a kind of autogenre which raises the question of all the profusion of energy put by the authors in achieving an autonomous status for their fiction writing