The Holocaust in French Postmodern Fiction
Aesthetics, Politics, Ethics
Helena Duffy
Click cover to enlarge Buy hardback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Research Monographs in French Studies 64 Legenda 10 December 2022 • 272pp ISBN: 978-1-781888-18-6 (hardback) • RRP £85, $115, €99 ISBN: 978-1-781888-22-3 (paperback, forthcoming) ISBN: 978-1-781888-26-1 (JSTOR ebook) Access online: Books@JSTOR Helena Duffy is Professor of French at the University Wrocław in Poland. With postmodernism being associated with playfulness, parody, irony, and even négationnisme, how suitable a medium is the postmodern novel for representing the Holocaust? The readings of Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder, Pierre Assouline’s La Cliente, Soazig Aaron’s Le Non de Klara, Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienveillantes, Philippe Claudel’s Le Rapport de Brodeck, and Yannick Haenel’s Jan Karski reveal that postmodern self-consciousness may help to voice the dilemmas attached to cultural representations of the Catastrophe. While postmodern anachronism, intertextuality, and intrusive narrators foreground the challenges of retelling the Shoah in the post-witness era, the postmodern novel’s fragmentariness, confused chronology, and silences enable the articulation of trauma. In exploring the ethical risks and benefits of Holocaust fiction, this book questions the political implications for the French memory of the Occupation of six novels written in the wake of Chirac’s acknowledgement of France’s embroilment in the Nazis’ genocidal project.
For a contents listing, see this volume at JSTOR. Bibliography entry: Duffy, Helena, The Holocaust in French Postmodern Fiction: Aesthetics, Politics, Ethics, Research Monographs in French Studies, 64 (Legenda, 2022) First footnote reference: 35 Helena Duffy, The Holocaust in French Postmodern Fiction: Aesthetics, Politics, Ethics, Research Monographs in French Studies, 64 (Legenda, 2022), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Duffy, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Duffy, Helena. 2022. The Holocaust in French Postmodern Fiction: Aesthetics, Politics, Ethics, Research Monographs in French Studies, 64 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Duffy 2022: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Duffy 2022: 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/Holocaust-in-French-Postmodern-Fiction www.mhra.org.uk/publications/rmfs-64 |
