Christy Wampole

Degenerative Realism

Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining key novels by Michel Houellebecq, Frà  dà  ric Beigbeder, Aurà  lien Bellanger, Yann Moix, and other French writers, Christy Wampole identifies and critiques an emergent tendency toward à â Å degenerative realism.à â Â

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Produktdetails

• Literature Now
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9780231185172
• ISBN-10: 0231185170
• Artikelnr.: 59861663

Autorenporträt

Christy Wampole is associate professor of French at Princeton University. She is the author of Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor (2016) and The Other Serious: Essays for the New American Generation (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction. What Is Degenerative Realism?
1. Demography and Survival in Twenty-First-Century France
2. Endarkenment from the Minitel to the Internet
3. Real-Time Realism, Part 1: Journalistic Immediacy
4. Real-Time Realism, Part 2: Le roman post-pamphlétaire
Conclusion. Novel as Nation: Forms of Parallel Decay
Notes
Bibliography
Index