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Title: Paradigms of Memory

Paradigms of Memory

The Occupation and Other Hi/stories in the Novels of Patrick Modiano

by Martine Guyot-Bender (Volume editor) William C. VanderWolk (Volume editor)
©1998 Monographs VIII, 196 Pages
Romance Studies
Series: Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures, Volume 64

Summary

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.

Details

Pages
VIII, 196
Year
1998
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820438641
Language
English
Keywords
recollection representation investigation
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt/M., Paris, Wien, 1998. VIII, 196 pp.

Biographical notes

Martine Guyot-Bender (Volume editor) William C. VanderWolk (Volume editor)

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.

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