Present pasts : Patrick Modiano's (auto)biographical fictions / Dervila Cooke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooke, Dervila, author.

Series:

Faux titre ; Number 225.

Faux Titre ; Number 225

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modiano, Patrick, 1945---Criticism and interpretation.

Modiano, Patrick.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Editions Rodopi, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first in-depth study of the twelve Modiano texts specifically concerned with life-writing in autobiographical and biographical-cum-historiographical projects. The texts covered range from La Place de l'étoile (1968) through to La Petite Bijou (2001). Close textual analysis is combined with a theoretical approach based on current thinking in autobiography, biography, and reader-response. Modiano's use of autofiction and biofiction is analysed in the light of his continuing obsession with both personal trauma and History, as well as his problematic relationship with his paternally-inherited Jewish links. His view of identity (of self and other) is thus discussed in relation to a particular literary and socio-historical context- French, postmodern, post-World War II, and post-Holocaust.

Contents:

Introduction

1: Storytellers and Interpreters

2: Autobiography and Autofiction

3: The Autofictions

4: Self-Narration as Theme

5: Modiano and Biography

6: Biographical Creation in Les Boulevards de ceinture and Chien de printemps

7: Fusion and Distance: Biography in Voyage de noces and Dora Bruder

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

94-012-0241-9

1-4237-9160-6

OCLC:

70886632

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401202411 DOI