Jean-François Vilar
Theatres Of Crime
Margaret Atack
Click cover to enlarge Buy hardback at: Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Research Monographs in French Studies 51 Legenda 28 September 2020 • 166pp ISBN: 978-1-781887-03-5 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95 ISBN: 978-1-781883-90-7 (paperback, 22 January 2023) • RRP £10.99, $14.99, €13.49 ISBN: 978-1-781883-91-4 (JSTOR ebook) Access online: Books@JSTOR ContemporaryFrenchFictionJournalismstudent-priced In addition to its original library hardback edition, this title is now on sale in the new student-priced Legenda paperback range. Jean-François Vilar (1947-2014) was a leading exponent of political crime fiction in France in the 1980s and 1990s. Paris, Prague, art and 'anti-art' from surrealism to Jacques Monory, 19th and 20th century revolutionary politics and their cortege of ever-present pasts, from the French Revolution to the Algerian War - these are only some of the drivers of his highly original novels. Vilar deploys the unsettling tropes of trompe l'œil, repetition, reproduction and rehearsal, together with a knowing, self-reflexive textuality, to produce a subversive and sinister theatricality. In this first full-length study of his work, Margaret Atack surveys not only Vilar's novels but also his shorter fiction, journalism, photobooks, and contributions to art and exhibition catalogues. From the ludic, if entirely serious, assassinations of political art in his first prize-winning novel C'est toujours les autres qui meurent, to the devastating unreality of massacre and extermination, Vilar's work constitutes a distinctive and important commentary on the murderous twentieth century. Margaret Atack is Professor of French at the University of Leeds. Reviews:
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Bibliography entry: Atack, Margaret, Jean-François Vilar: Theatres Of Crime, Research Monographs in French Studies, 51 (Legenda, 2020) First footnote reference: 35 Margaret Atack, Jean-François Vilar: Theatres Of Crime, Research Monographs in French Studies, 51 (Legenda, 2020), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Atack, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Atack, Margaret. 2020. Jean-François Vilar: Theatres Of Crime, Research Monographs in French Studies, 51 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Atack 2020: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Atack 2020: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Jean-François-Vilar www.mhra.org.uk/publications/rmfs-51 |