Publication details
Les failles de la modernité et l'écriture en spirale de Jean Rouaud
| Title in English | Faults in Modernity and Spiral Writing in the Novels by Jean Rouaud |
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Jean Rouaud, l'Imaginaire narratif |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | Modernity; French Contemporary Novel; Jean Rouaud; Second World War; Memory |
| Description | The study demonstrates the originality of Jean Rouaud's writing by analysing, comparing and contrasting the way in which the characters, who are at the same time real authors ancestors, cope with the burden of family memory. In this study, we found that writing in a spiral defies pathos. The main characters - Joseph and his father, uncle, aunt Mary, Peter's grandfather and the narrator's mother are recurrent. Their views on and attitudes towards family history evolve, again like a spiral. |
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