Of Words and the World : Referential Anxiety in Contemporary French Fiction.

Here David Ellison explores the problems encountered by France's best experimental authors writing between 1956 and 1984, when faced with the question: "What should my writing be about?" These years are characterized by the rise of the "new novelists," who questioned the rep...

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Main Author: Ellison, David R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.
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