Rochat, YannickKaplan, Frédéric2014-08-132014-08-132014-08-13201410.3166/LCN.10.3.109‐133https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/105491Cet article étudie le concept de centralité dans les réseaux de personnages apparaissant dans Les Confessions de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Notre objectif est ainsi de caractériser certains aspects des rôles des personnages du récit sur la base de leurs cooccurrences dans le texte. We sketch a theoretical framework for literary network analysis, bringing together narratology, distant reading and social network analysis. We extract co-occurrences from a book index without the need for text analysis and describe the narrative roles of the characters. As a case study, we use the autobiographical novel Les Confessions from Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Eventually, we compute four types of centrality — degree, closeness, betweenness, eigenvector — and use these measures to propose a typology of narrative roles for the characters.networkcharacter networkcentralitynetwork analysisdigital humanitiesdistant readingtext::journal::journal article::research article