Stylometry is a method of investigation that sifts through texts and their styles. From the Bible to Molière, passing through Elena Ferrante and Kurt Cobain, it allows certain debates to be closed and certain mysteries to be elucidated. “Affaires de style” is published by Le Robert editions.
The book by Florian Cafiero and Jean-Baptiste Camps reads like a collection of detective stories. Each chapter is also presented as an investigation. With serious or far-fetched leads, sometimes confirmed, sometimes abandoned, but always explored. The suspects and the investigators are more or less recommendable, the mysteries also borrow sometimes from criminal history, sometimes from the great controversies of literature.
Who is hiding behind the pseudonym of best-selling author Elena Ferrante? Who really wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey? Did Molière steal everything from Corneille? Is Shakespeare really the genius they say? And the Bible, hold on, can we flush out its various authors?
These are some of the files opened by our two guests of the day, who share with their readers the secrets of a little-known discipline: stylometry. With us Florian Cafieronormalien, engineer at the CNRS and Jean-Baptiste Camps, philosopher, doctor of medieval studies from the Sorbonne, lecturer at the Ecole des Chartes. Both teach stylometry.
Their book “Affaires de style” was published by Le Robert editions.
Report : direction Austria to discover a young author whose identity hardly lends itself to controversy: Raphaela Edelbauer. She won the Austrian Book Prize 2021 for her second novel, “Dave”. The French-speaking public can already discover this author since her first novel, “Liquid Earth” translated by Olivier Mannoni was published last year by Globe editions. A novel bordering on fantasy that confronts Austria with its Nazi past. isaure hiace met her in Vienna.