French Fiction in the Mitterrand Years : Memory, Narrative, Desire Paperback / softback
by Colin (Reader in French, Reader in French, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford) Davis, Elizabeth (Reader in French, Reader in French, St John's College, Oxford) Fallaize
Part of the Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture series
Paperback / softback
Description
In the 1980s and 1990s French Fiction has emerged from the towering shadow of the formalist literary debates of the fifties and sixties and has reclaimed the ground of history, or narrative, of the individual self which has been the thrust of artistic endeavour for much of European history.
The Author has returned from the dead to entertain and tell stories, as well as to negotiate a path through traumatic experiences such as the legacy of Frances colonial and wartime past, the Holocaust, the spectre of Aids, the labyrinths of desire and personal identity.
Colin Davis and Elizabeth Fallaize examine some of the most popular and some of the most challenging of texts which emerged during François Mitterrand's presidency of France (1981-1995) and relate them to the dominant literary and cultural trends of the period.
The book will appeal to students at all levels who are engaged in courses in twentieth-century fiction and to readers with an interest in contemporary French culture.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:168 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:21/09/2000
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- ISBN:9780198159551
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:168 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:21/09/2000
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198159551
