French Fiction Into the Twenty-First Century - The Return to the Story

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Simon Kemp is a Fellow at St. John's College! Oxford. Klappentext The French novel's "return to the story" in the last decades of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first is has been widely acknowledged in literary scholarship. But is this assessment accurate? With "French Fiction in the Twenty-First Century! "Simon Kemp looks at the work of five contemporary writers--Annie Ernaux! Pascal Quignard! Marie Darrieussecq! Jean Echenoz! and Patrick Modiano--in the context of the current French literary scene! and examines how far they pursue the innovations of their predecessors and just how far they have turned their backs on the era of experiment. Zusammenfassung This book examines contemporary French literature in the light of a widely-held critical notion that it exists 'in the wake' of a period in which avant-garde experimental literature and postmodern writing-about-writing held sway.. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter one: Annie Ernaux and the Narrating of Time Chapter two: Pascal Quignard and the Fringes of Narrative Chapter three: Marie Darrieussecq and the Voice of the Mind Chapter four: Jean Echenoz and the Uses of Digression Chapter five: Patrick Modiano and the Problem of Endings The Return to the Story

Product details

• Authors: Simon Kemp, Kemp Simon
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2010
• EAN: 9780708322734
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2273-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: French and Francophone Studies; University of Wales Press - Fr; French and Francophone Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; first, French, Story, Fiction, to, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Twenty, Century, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, Return, into