With the arrival of a newr generation of authors in the 1980s, French literary creation reoriented itself toward more conventional narrative concerns pertaining to the exploration of the stuff of language. At the same time, sociology also turned toward content analyses, which, to a certain extent, discarded the more formalist concerns of recent sociological analyses. Both cases display a renewed interest in the subject. Situated between autobiography, autofiction, and the "transpersonal" narrative, this new approach to novel writing testifies to a problematization of subjective identity in contemporary society. In this perspective, the novel's narrative incorporates sociological analysis. That is, it develops affinities with sociological analyses concerned with ideological debates over identity formation, relations with others, the possibility of universalism with regard to nationalist, ethnie, or religious expression.