
Patrick Modiano
Second Edition
Akane Kawakami(Author)
Liverpool University Press
2nd Edition
Published on 10. December 2015
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-78138-274-5 (ISBN)
Description
Conceived as a second edition to Kawakami's acclaimed A Self-Conscious Art, which was the first full-length study in English of Patrick Modiano's work, this book has been comprehensively updated with two new chapters, notably discussing the author's recent work and his Nobel Prize win. Kawakami shows how by parodying precursors such as Proust or the nouveau romanciers, Modiano's narratives are built around a profound lack of faith in the ability of writing to retrieve the past through memory, and this failure is acknowledged in the discreet playfulness that characterises his novels.
This welcome update on the work of one of the most successful modern French novelists will be essential reading for scholars working on contemporary French writing.
This welcome update on the work of one of the most successful modern French novelists will be essential reading for scholars working on contemporary French writing.
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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 163 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78138-274-5 (9781781382745)
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Person
Akane Kawakami is a Professor in French Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. She has written numerous articles on modern and contemporary French and Francophone literature, and is the author of A Self-Conscious Art: Patrick Modiano's Postmodern Fictions (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000); Travellers' Visions: French Literary Encounters with Japan, 1881-2004 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2005); and Photobiography: Photographic Self-Writing in Proust, Guibert, Ernaux and Mace (Oxford: Legenda, 2013). She has also published two books of essays in Japanese, introducing aspects of English culture to a Japanese readership.
Content
Introduction
1 Degree Zero Voices: The Empty Narrator
2 Disorderly Narratives: The Order of Narration
3 Unreal Stories: The 'effet d'irreel'
4 Being Serious: Modiano's Use of History
5 Being Playful: Parody and Disappointment
6 Being Popular: The Modiano Novel
7 Being a Woman: Mothers and Lovers
8 Being Eternal: The Endless Recurrence of Time and Writing
Notes
Bibliography
Index
1 Degree Zero Voices: The Empty Narrator
2 Disorderly Narratives: The Order of Narration
3 Unreal Stories: The 'effet d'irreel'
4 Being Serious: Modiano's Use of History
5 Being Playful: Parody and Disappointment
6 Being Popular: The Modiano Novel
7 Being a Woman: Mothers and Lovers
8 Being Eternal: The Endless Recurrence of Time and Writing
Notes
Bibliography
Index