Boris Lyon-Caen is researcher of French Literature at Sorbonne Université. His main fields of research are 19th century’s French literature, with a particular focus on the novel. Among his books we may remember Balzac et la comédie des signes. Essai sur une expérience de pensée (PUV, 2006); he is co-director of Balzac et la crise des identités (Pirot, 2005), Le Roman du signe. Fiction et herméneutique au XIX^e siècle (PUV, 2007), Balzac et le politique (Pirot, 2007) et Essai et essayisme au XIX^e siècle (Classiques Garnier, 2014).