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'Beyond Return is a rich, intellectually vigorous, and persuasive study of contemporary French fiction and its presumed return to subject, story, and world. Entertainingly written and well-documented, it focuses on four major writers of the past forty or fifty years, each representing a different take on how such returns can be situated in terms of modernist and postmodernist stances or beyond them, on what they can consist of, and on what they can mean.' Gerald J. Prince, University of Pennsylvania 'This book will be an original contribution to scholarship on contemporary French fiction. Hollister's significant achievement here is to demonstrate how innovative French takes on genre fiction may provide important insights on literary history and cultural politics.' Ruth Cruickshank, Royal Holloway, University of London

'Beyond Return is a rich, intellectually vigorous, and persuasive study of contemporary French fiction and its presumed return to subject, story, and world. Entertainingly written and well-documented, it focuses on four major writers of the past forty or fifty years, each representing a different take on how such returns can be situated in terms of modernist and postmodernist stances or beyond them, on what they can consist of, and on what they can mean.' Gerald J. Prince, University of Pennsylvania 'This book will be an original contribution to scholarship on contemporary French fiction. Hollister’s significant achievement here is to demonstrate how innovative French takes on genre fiction may provide important insights on literary history and cultural politics.' Ruth Cruickshank, Royal Holloway, University of London

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Lucas Hollister is an Assistant Professor of French Language and Literature at Dartmouth College

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