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Fables of the Novel
Warren Motte
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Description for Fables of the Novel
Paperback. Num Pages: 241 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 330.
Readers of the contemporary novel in France are witnessing the most astonishing reinvigoration of narrative prose since the New Novel of the 1950s. In the last few years, bold, innovative, and richly compelling novels have been written by a variety of young writers. These texts question traditional strategies of character, plot, theme, and message; and they demand new strategies of reading, too. Choosing ten novels published during the 1990s as examples of that trend, Warren Motte traces the resurgence of the novel in France. He argues that each of the novels under consideration here, quite apart from what other stories ... Read more
Readers of the contemporary novel in France are witnessing the most astonishing reinvigoration of narrative prose since the New Novel of the 1950s. In the last few years, bold, innovative, and richly compelling novels have been written by a variety of young writers. These texts question traditional strategies of character, plot, theme, and message; and they demand new strategies of reading, too. Choosing ten novels published during the 1990s as examples of that trend, Warren Motte traces the resurgence of the novel in France. He argues that each of the novels under consideration here, quite apart from what other stories ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564782830
SKU
V9781564782830
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About Warren Motte
Warren Motte is chair of the Department of French and Italian at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he specializes in contemporary writing and focuses particularly on experimental works that challenge conventional notions of literary form. He has written several studies of contemporary French Literature, including Fables of the Novel: French Fiction Since 1990, available from Dalkey Archive Press. Translator ... Read more
Reviews for Fables of the Novel
"Motte makes an attractive and useful case for the subspecies of modernism: minimalism... We can be grateful for this guidance through the maze toward the lively rewards that exist beyond." - Lee Fahnestock, World Literature Today "Small Worlds has much to offer... Those who sample even a chapter or two are likely to be sufficiently intrigued by Motte's stimulating presentation ... Read more