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Guyot-Bender, Martine / VanderWolk, William (eds.)
Paradigms of Memory
The Occupation and Other Hi/stories in the Novels of Patrick Modiano
Series: Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures - Volume 64
Year of Publication: 1998
New York, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt/M., Paris, Wien, 1998. VIII, 194 pp.
ISBN 978-0-8204-3864-1 hardback
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Weight: 0.470 kg, 1.036 lbs
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Book synopsis
The first collective study in English of the novels of Patrick Modiano (b. 1945), these essays approach the question of memory - and its interaction with history - in Modiano's works from several different theoretical and critical angles, all leading to an examination of the relationship between recollection and representation. The historical background of the Nazi occupation of France offers grounds for reflection on the ambiguous relationship between individual and collective memory. Through investigation, memory, repetition, and a coming to writing, Modiano's narrators represent each one of us as we come to terms with our individual and historical past.
Contents
Contents: Martine Guyot-Bender / William VanderWolk: Editors' Introduction - Martine Guyot-Bender: Making Sense of Narrative Ambiguity - Marja Warehime: Returning to the Scene of the Crime - William VanderWolk: Whose Memory is This? Modiano's Historical Method - Alan Morris: A Photographic Memory: Ambiguity in Chien de printemps- Junate Kaminskas: Modiano's Female Trilogy: Voyage de Noces, Fleurs de ruine, Un Cirque passe - Hervé Allet: The Names of the Fathers: Onomastics and Intertextuality in La Place de l'étoile - Nathalie Rachlin: The Modiano Syndrome: 1968-1997 - Joseph Golsan: Author, Identity and the Voice of History in Patrick Modiano's La Ronde de nuit and Boulevards de ceinture - Juliette Dickstein: Inventing French Memory: The Legacy of the Occupation in the Works of Patrick Modiano: 1968-1988 - Raymond Bach: Recurring Characters in Modiano's Oeuvre.
About the author(s)/editor(s)
The Editors: Martine Guyot-Bender is Associate Professor of French at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. She is the author of Mémoire en dérive and articles on twentieth-century French and Francophone literature.
William VanderWolk is Professor of French at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. He is the author of Flaubert Remembers (Peter Lang, 1990), Rewriting the Past: Memory, History and Narration in the Novels of Patrick Modiano, and articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature.
Series
Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures. Vol. 64
General Editors: Tamara Alvarez-Detrell and Michael G. Paulson