Sérialité vs singularité dans les monographies illustrées « qui êtes-vous?» et « les contemporains»

Through the notion of seriality, this article aims to study the inherent tension that exists between the principle of serialization and the peculiarity of avant-garde writers who, on the contrary, do not obey a group spirit. From the modest sample studied here (‘Qui êtes-vous?’ and ‘Les Contemporains’), I show that the question was not so much in the differentiation of the series but in the tension between the singularity of the studied writer and the role he or she plays in the ‘series’. Thus, the question of stylistic and poetic choice plays a considerable role in the two series studied and manifests itself in both semiotic systems - in the text, as well as in the choice of images and comments on them. Thus, the biographical is taken for poetics, and group photos embody the singular positioning of each writer within the collections. A series (literary avant-garde authors) in the series (the collection), whose success depends on the singularization of each writer it presents.