| Summary: | This study focuses on the effects of literary collage and montage on chapter, through three Anglo-saxon literary works: John Dos Passos’ U.S.A. (1938), William Burroughs’ trilogy, composed of The Soft Machine (1961), The Ticket That Exploded (1962) and Nova express (1964), and James Graham Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition (in his 1990’s augmented edition). Collage and montage, two methods of fragmentation of literary text, make it possible to introduce continuity between chapters. It seems that this deconstruction of novel linearity is a way to question structure of media discourse: press, television, movies, their artifices and their power are at the heart of the three works of this corpus. Overall, collage and montage as process of novel writing are used as taking a critical look at contemporary media. So, a political dimension of chapter is taking shape, in which the structure of the text becomes a critical tool itself.
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