Publication details
De la relecture du moderne vers l'écriture du postmoderne (En marge de l'oeuvre romanesque de Jean Echenoz)
| Title in English | From re-reading the modern to writing the postmodern (Some notes to the novels by Jean Échenoz) |
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| Year of publication | 2005 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Etudes Romanes de Brno |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | Jean Echenoz; French Contemporary Novel; Modernism; Postmodernism; Nouveau Roman |
| Description | Evident and wide-spread as it is, the notion of postmodern is nevertheless far from being unanimously interpreted, and also far from revealing itself as a useful means for commenting on the literature since the 1980s to the beginning of the XXth century. However, explained by Jean- François Lyotard as a way of re-writing of the modernity under the form of an anamnesis, the postmodern proves to be operational enough to give an account of several tendencies in the contemporary narrative literature.1 Thus the postmodern of Jean Echenoz represents a process - more analytical than critical and more playful than ironic - staging several of the commonplaces of the literary modernism. In this way, some of his deviations of the ultimate phase (Tel Quel, Nouveau Roman nouveau Nouveau Roman, etc.), namely the autoreflexive and metatextual writing, but also the writing of the texts recycling other texts or genres, start up a textual machine putting the narrative elements back into play. |
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