French Autobiography: Devices and Desires
Rousseau to Perec
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 16 September 1993
- ISBN 9780198158431
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages364 pages
- Size 243x161x26 mm
- Weight 716 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line illustrations 0
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Short description:
Autobiography has been the subject of growing critical interest in recent years. In the first full-scale study of French autobiography, Michael Sheringham uses close and sensitive readings of sixteen key French autobiographical texts by writers from Rousseau to Sarraute, Stendhal to Perec, to provide a major contribution to the discussion of the genre.
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This is the first full-scale study of French autobiography. Whereas earlier critics have engaged primarily in theoretical discussion of the genre, or in analyses of individual works or authors, Michael Sheringham identifies sixteen key autobiographical texts and situates them in the context of an evolving set of challenges and problems.
Informed by a sophisticated awareness of recent theoretical debates, Sheringham conceives autobiography as a distinctively open form of writing, perpetually engaged with different forms of `otherness'. Manifestations of the Other in the autobiographical process - from the reader, who incarnates other people, to ideology, against which individual truth must be pitted, to the potential otherness of memory itself - are traced through a scrutiny of the `devices and desires' at work in a range of texts from Rousseau's Confessions, to Stendhal's Vie de Henry Brulard and Sartre's Les Mots. Other writers examined include Chateaubriand, Gide, Green, Leiris, Leduc, Gorz, Barthes, Perec, and Sarraute.
French Autobiography: Devices and Desires represents both the first attempt to assemble a canon in one volume and a strikingly original contribution to the theory of autobiography.
'this is a well-informed and incisively written investigation into French autobiography ... it is refreshing to find conclusions emerging from an acute analysis of a wide diversity of autobiographical practice, and a constant awareness of approaches in non-French autobiography'
Times Higher Education Supplement
