Fables of the novel : French fiction since 1990 / Warren Motte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Motte, Warren F.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

French fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

242 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Normal, Ill. : Dalkey Archive Press, 2003.

Summary:

Readers of the contemporary novel in France are witnessing the most astonishing reinvigoration of narrative prose since the New Novel of the 1950s. In the last few years, bold, innovative, and richly compelling novels have been written by a variety of young writers. These texts question traditional strategies of character, plot, theme, and message; and they demand new strategies of reading, too. Choosing ten novels published during the 1990s as examples of that trend, Warren Motte traces the resurgence of the novel in France. He argues that each of the novels under consideration here, quite apart from what other stories it tells, presents a fable of the novel that deals with the genre's possibilities, limitations, and future as a cultural form.

Contents:

I J. M. G. Le Clezio's Elsewhere 13

II Eric Chevillard's Crab 29

III Linda Le's Language 51

IV Eric Laurrent's Schlemiel 77

V Jacques Jouet's Magic Mountain 97

VI Marie NDiaye's Sorcery 113

VII Jean Echenoz's Yearbook 135

VIII Christian Oster's Picnic 157

IX Jean-Philippe Toussaint's TV Guide 177

X Lydie Salvayre's Lecture 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-235) and index.

ISBN:

1564782840

1564782832

OCLC:

51022826