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Gustave 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.

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Author:   Andrew Asibong ,  Aude Campmas
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   414
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.415kg
ISBN:  

9789004337152

ISBN 10:   9004337156
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   02 February 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English, French

Table of Contents

Introduction, 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 Campmas

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Andrew 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.

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