Telling anxiety : anxious narration in the work of Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, Nathalie Sarraute, and Anne Hébert /

Telling anxiety : anxious narration in the work of Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, Nathalie Sarraute, and Anne Hébert / Jennifer Willging.

"From two world wars to rapid industrialization and population shifts, events of the twentieth century engendered cultural anxieties to an extent hitherto unseen, particularly in Europe. In Telling Anxiety, Jennifer Willging examines manifestations of such anxieties in the selected narratives o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Willging, Jennifer.
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2007]
Series:University of Toronto romance series.
Subjects:
Duras, Marguerite > Criticism and interpretation.
Ernaux, Annie, > 1940- > Criticism and interpretation.
Sarraute, Nathalie > Criticism and interpretation.
Hébert, Anne > Criticism and interpretation.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 20th century.
Anxiety in literature.
French fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
French prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • 'Truth' in memory and narrative: Marguerite Dura's 'Monsieur X. dit ici Pierre Rabier'
  • Shame in memory and narrative: Annie Ernaux's La honte
  • The anxiety of influence and the urge to originate: Nathalie Sarraute's Entre la vie et la mort
  • The sound of the semiotic: Anne Hébert's Les fous de Bassan.

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