| Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-First Century Contributor(s): Motte, Warren (Author) |
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ISBN: 1564785033 ISBN-13: 9781564785039 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 843.920 |
| LCCN: 2007044885 |
| Series: Dalkey Archive Scholarly |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 7.8" W x 5.5" (0.70 lbs) 237 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fiction Now reports on the current states of the novel in France, taking a series of soundings within the compass of innovative French writing since 2001. Chapters focus closely upon Jean Echenoz, Marie Redonnet, Christian Gailly, Lydie Salvayre, G?rard Gavarry, H?l?ne Lenoir, Patrick Lapeyre, and Christine Montalbetti. Each of the authors invoked exemplified in his or her work a different set of strategies, concerns, and approaches: one of them transposes the Book of Judith to the Parisian suburbs; another imagines the most taciturn of cowboys in the American West; still another goes well beyond death, into the afterlife of a concert pianist. Despite their diversity of theme and technique, these writers share a will to make French fiction new, and demonstrate compellingly that the novel as it is practiced in France today is an extremely vigorous, deeply enthralling, and richly plural cultural form. |