The book includes illustrations and an extensive bibliography. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

Autorentext
Alison James is an Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. She specializes in modern and contemporary French literature, with a particular interest in experimental literature, the Oulipo group, representations of everyday life, and theories of fact and fiction in literary narratives. She is the author of Constraining Chance: Georges Perec and the Oulipo (Northwestern University Press, 2009).

Klappentext

Studying works by authors including Gide, Breton, Aragon, Yourcenar, Duras, and Modiano, this volume re-thinks twentieth-century French literature and engages with the question of distinctions between the factual and the fictional.

Inhalt

• Introduction: Speaking Facts

• 1: Outrageously Real: André Gide's Documentary Modernism

• 2: 'Pris sur le vif': The Surrealist Poetics of the Document

• 3: Family Relics: Marguerite Yourcenar's Archival Autobiography

• 4: Paper Witnesses: Documentary Memory After World War II

• Epilogue: Documents in the Digital Age