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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820332803321

Autore

Kemp Simon <1973->

Titolo

French fiction into the twenty-first century : the return to the story / / Simon Kemp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, [Wales] : , : University of Wales Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-299-20070-2

0-7083-2274-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

French and Francophone Studies

Disciplina

843.008032441

Soggetti

French fiction - 20th century

French fiction - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Series Editors' Preface; Introduction; Annie Ernaux and the Narrating of Time; Pascal Quignard and the Fringes of Narrative; Marie Darrieussecq and the Voice of the Mind; Jean Echenoz and the uses of digression; Patrick Modiano and the Problem of Endings; The Return to the Story; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.