Michael Ferrier, Transnational Novelist: French Without Borders

This is the first ever book-length study of Michaël Ferrier, a prize-winning novelist, essayist and academic whose cosmopolitan life - he grew up in Chad and France, has Mauritian roots and lives in Japan - has inspired him to write fascinating novels that cross generic and geographical boundaries.

About the author

Akane Kawakami is Senior Lecturer in French Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. She has written numerous articles on modern and contemporary French and Francophone literature, and is the author of A Self-Conscious Art: Patrick Modiano's Postmodern Fictions (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000); Travellers' Visions: French Literary Encounters with Japan, 1881-2004 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2005); and Photobiography: Photographic Self-Writing in Proust, Guibert, Ernaux and MacÃ(c) (Oxford: Legenda, 2013). She has also published two books of essays in Japanese, introducing aspects of English culture to a Japanese readership.

Summary

Michaël Ferrier is a prize-winning novelist, essayist and academic whose cosmopolitan life – he grew up in Chad and France, has Mauritian roots and lives in Japan – has inspired him to write some fascinating novels that cross generic and geographical boundaries.

Product details

• Authors: Akane Kawakami
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9781802074857
• ISBN: 978-1-80207-485-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCO
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education