Diaries Real and Fictional in Twentieth-Century French Writing
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 March 2018
- ISBN 9780198814535
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 242x164x23 mm
- Weight 560 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 Figures and 2 Tables 0
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Short description:
An authoritative and original volume on the history of the diary in French writing in the twentieth century with a series of chapter-length studies on works by André Gide, Raymond Queneau, Roland Barthes, and Annie Ernaux.
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This volume is the first study of the diary in French writing across the twentieth century, as a genre which includes both fictional and non-fictional works. From the 1880s it became apparent to writers in France that their diaries?a supposedly private form of writing ?would probably come to be published, strongly affecting the way their readers viewed their other published works, and their very persona as an author. More than any other, André Gide embraced the literary potential of the diary: the first part of this book follows his experimentation with the diary in the fictional works Les Cahiers d'André Walter (1891) and Paludes (1895), in his diary of the composition of his great novel, Le Journal des faux-monnayeurs (1926), and in his monumental Journal 1889-1939 (1939).
The second part follows developments in diary-writing after the Second World War, inflected by radical changes in attitudes towards the writing subject. Raymond Queneau's works published under the pseudonym of Sally Mara (1947-1962) used the diary playfully at a time when the writing subject was condemned by the literary avant-garde. Roland Barthes's experiments with the diary (1977-1979) took it to the extremes of its formal possibilities, at the point of a return of the writing subject. Annie Ernaux's published diaries (1993-2011) demonstrate the role of the diary in the modern field of life-writing. Throughout the century, the diary has repeatedly been used to construct an oeuvre and author, but also to call these fundamental literary concepts into question.
In Diaries Real and Fictional in Twentieth-Century French Writing, Sam Ferguson opts for an altogether different approach.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: André Gide's diary-writing
Les Cahiers d'André Walter
Paludes
Le Journal des Faux-monnayeurs
The Journal 1889-1939
Part II: Diary-writing after Gide
Raymond Queneau's ?uvres compl?tes de Sally Mara
The Return of the diary in Barthes's 'Vita Nova'
Annie Ernaux: The place of the diary in modern life-writing
Conclusion
