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Present pasts : Patrick Modiano's (auto)biographical fictions

By Modiano , Patrick; Cooke , Dervila

Book information

Publisher
Rodopi
Year
2005
ISBN
90-420-1884-4, 9789042018846, 9781423791607, 1423791606
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1751887 bytes)
Series
Faux titre no. 255
Pages
356\357
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
-- 1945- -- Criticism and interpretation. Modiano-- 1945- -- Critique et interprétation. LITERARY-- 1945- Het Autobiografische.ModianoPatrick

Description

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

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