THE WITCHER - Un monde de légendes : Romans - Jeux vidéo - Séries

"How does the legend of Geralt and Ciri end? But everyone knows that!" This reflection, from a secondary character in the seventh volume of The Witcher, sums up all the issues raised in the saga: the story of the wizard Geralt, his adopted daughter Cirilla and, to a lesser extent, other protagonists such as the wizard Yennefer and the bard Jaskier, has all the makings of a legend. Still under construction today, it has been developed in successive stages since 1986, first and foremost by the author.

And the transmedia adventure of The Witcher is far from over.

This study also proposes to examine the way in which The Witcher constructs its own legend: how does the notion of legend become at once source, material and result in this transmedia and polyphonic work?

By its composition through the accumulation of variants, and by its narration mixing history and wonder in an always epic approach, The Witcher saga reaches itself the status of contemporary legend. It offers a legendary narrative under construction, woven from borrowings from various myths and developed through a transmedia bundle, forming a vast set of stories glorifying the exploits of heroes - in other words, a legend.