Fin de millenaire French Fiction: The Aesthetics of Crisis (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs)

303 Pages·2009·1.73 MB·English

by  Ruth Cruickshank

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FIN DE MILLENAIRE
FRENCH
FICTION
The Aesthetics of Crisis
RUTH CRUICKSHANK
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Contents
Listofabbreviations ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1
1.Crisis,criticalperspectives,andfindemill´enaireprosefiction 18
2.JeanEchenoz:problematicpatternsandsymbolic
violence 69
3.MichelHouellebecq:ideologicalchallengeand
precipitatingcrisis 114
4.ChristineAngot:trauma,transgression,and
thewritetoreply 168
5.MarieRedonnet:resistance,barbarism,and
self-satisfied contemplation 214
Conclusion 257
Chronology 269
Suggestionsforfurtherreading 271
Index 281
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List of abbreviations
VC ChristineAngot,Vuduciel(Paris:L’Arpenteur,1990)
NTB ChristineAngot,Nottobe(Paris:L’Arpenteur,1991)
LT ChristineAngot,L´eonore,toujours(Paris:L’Arpenteur,1994)
INT ChristineAngot,Interview(Paris:Fayard,1995)
LA ChristineAngot,LesAutres(Paris:Fayard,1997)
SA ChristineAngot,SujetAngot(Paris:Fayard,1998)
I ChristineAngot,L’Inceste(Paris:Fayard,1999)
QV ChristineAngot,Quitterlaville(Paris:Fayard,2000)
NT JeanEchenoz,Noustrois(Paris:Minuit,1992)
LGB JeanEchenoz,LesGrandesBlondes(Paris:Minuit,1995)
UA JeanEchenoz,UnAn(Paris:Minuit,1997)
JMV JeanEchenoz,Jem’envais(Paris:Minuit,1999)
EDL MichelHouellebecq,Extensiondudomainedelalutte(Paris:Maurice
Nadeau,1994;Paris:J’ailu,1997).Allquotationsarefromthe1997
pocheedition.
PE Michel Houellebecq, Les Particules ´el´ementaires (Paris: Flammarion,
1998)
INV MichelHouellebecq,Interventions(Paris:Flammarion,1998)
S MarieRedonnet,Silsie(Paris:Gallimard,1990)
CS MarieRedonnet,CandyStory(Paris:P.O.L,1992)
N MarieRedonnet,Nevermore(Paris:P.O.L,1994)
VR MarieRedonnet,VillaRosa(Charenton:Flohic,1996)
AP MarieRedonnet,L’Accorddepaix(Paris:Grasset,2000)
JG Marie Redonnet, Jean Genet, le po`ete travesti: Portrait d’une œuvre
(Paris:Grasset,2000)