LEADER 04029nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910812466903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a94-012-0316-4 010 $a1-4294-6802-5 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401203166 035 $a(CKB)1000000000464440 035 $a(EBL)556482 035 $a(OCoLC)126879446 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000100238 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11990807 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000100238 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10021099 035 $a(PQKB)10779927 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556482 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556482 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380533 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401203166 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000464440 100 $a20060811d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAge rage and going gently $estories of the senescent subject in twentieth-century French writing /$fOliver Davis 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York $cRodopi$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (226 p.) 225 1 $aFaux titre ;$v283 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-2026-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [205]-218) and index. 327 $aAcknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Gerontology against ontology in Simone de Beauvoir's La Vieillesse -- 2. André Gide's split senescent subject -- 3. Violette Leduc and the problem with psychoanalysis -- 4. Towards a psychoanalytic approach to senescent subjectivity -- 5. Beauvoir as biographer and autobiographer of the ageing subject -- 6. Hervé Guibert's intergenerational photo-text -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aThis wide-ranging study looks at how the ageing process has alternately been figured in and excluded from twentieth-century French literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis. It espouses a critical interdisciplinarity and calls into question the assumptions underlying much research into ageing in the social sciences, work in which the negative aspects of growing older are almost invariably suppressed. It offers a major reappraisal of Simone de Beauvoir's great but neglected late treatise, La Vieillesse , and presents the first substantial discussion of a lost documentary film about old age in which Beauvoir appears and which she helped to write, PROMENADE AU PAYS DE LA VIEILLESSE. Questioning Beauvoir's own rather reductive reading of Gide's work on old age, this study analyses the way in which his Journal and Ainsi soit-il experiment with a range of representational models for the senescent subject. The encounter between psychoanalysis and ageing is framed by a reading of Violette Leduc's autobiographical trilogy, in which she suggests that psychoanalysis, to its detriment, simply cannot allow ageing to signify. This claim is tested in a critical survey of recent theoretical and clinical work by psychoanalysts interested in ageing in France, the UK and the US. Lastly, Hervé Guibert's recently republished photo-novel about his elderly great-aunts, Suzanne et Louise , is examined as a work of intergenerational empathy and is found, in addition, to be an important statement of his photographic aesthetic. Navigating between the extremes of fury ('age rage') and serene acceptance ('going gently'), this study aims throughout to examine the role which ageing plays in formal, as well as thematic, terms in writing the life of the subject. 410 0$aFaux titre ;$vno. 283. 606 $aAging in literature 606 $aFrench literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAging in literature. 615 0$aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a840.9/355 700 $aDavis$b Oliver$f1977-$01752816 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812466903321 996 $aAge rage and going gently$94188291 997 $aUNINA