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OverviewGustave Flaubert, Samuel Beckett and Marie NDiaye can be considered as visionaries of a peculiarly radical form of failure, their protagonists and texts alike sliding inexorably into unmanageable states of paradox, incompletion and disintegration. What are the implications of these authors’ experiments in splitting and negativity, experiments which seem to indulge the most cynical aspects of nihilism, whilst at the same time grappling with the very foundations of politicized and psychic truth? In this unusual edited volume of comparative analyses, Andrew Asibong and Aude Campmas bring together ten provocative and illuminating essays, each of which approaches the various ‘failures’ of the bizarre trio of canonical francophone writers along three principal axes of investigation: the aesthetic, the emotional and the political. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew Asibong , Aude CampmasPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 414 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.415kg ISBN: 9789004337152ISBN 10: 9004337156 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 02 February 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Available To Order ![]() We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Language: English, French Table of ContentsIntroduction, Andrew Asibong and Aude Campmas Echoes of Terence: 'Rien d'humain' in the friends and neighbours of Flaubert, Beckett and NDiaye, Arthur Rose Que prouve un insucces?' Re-cycling failure in Flaubert and Beckett, Kate Rees Lieux communs en heritage: de Flaubert a Marie NDiaye, de quoi sont-ils le nom?, Chloe Brendle L'idiotie en famille: Rhetorique et politique de l'idiot chez Flaubert et Beckett, Marie Berne 'May I be alive when I die!' Dreaming of (re)animation in Flaubert, Beckett and NDiaye, Andrew Asibong Objet petit 'Ah!': backstory dramas and sentimental histories in Flaubert's L'Education sentimentale and Beckett's La Derniere Bande, Mary Orr Failure and impure narcissism in Oh les beaux jours and 'Une journee de Brulard', William McKenzie From paradox to excess: Flaubert's Bouvard et Pecuchet and Beckett's L'Innommable, Tobias Haberkorn L'echec comme attaque: les romans clastiques de Gustave Flaubert et Marie Ndiaye, Aude CampmasReviewsAuthor InformationAndrew Asibong, Ph.D (King’s College London, 2004) is Reader in Film and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, Co-Director of Birkbeck Research in Aesthetics of Kinship and Community, and author of Marie NDiaye: Blankness and Recognition (LUP, 2013) and François Ozon (MUP, 2008). Aude Campmas, Ph.D (Université Paris 7, 2008) is Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Southampton. Her current research interests include the relation between science and literature and the representation of the ‘monstrous family' in francophone literature. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |