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Patrick Modiano (Modern French Writers)
Akane Kawakami
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Description for Patrick Modiano (Modern French Writers)
Hardcover. The most up-to-date and comprehensive critical study of Nobel Prize winning author Patrick Modiano. Series: Modern French Writers. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 517.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Modern French Writers
Condition
New
Weight
494g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781382745
SKU
V9781781382745
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About Akane Kawakami
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 ... Read more
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