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Author:   Peter Tame
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   119
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.860kg
ISBN:  

9783034308373

ISBN 10:   303430837
Pages:   584
Publication Date:   29 June 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Roland Dorgelès, Les Croix de bois (1919): Memotopia of martyrdom – Raymond Radiguet, Le Diable au corps (1923): Egotopia and erotopia – André Chamson, Roux le bandit (1925): Rurotopia and sacrotopia in the Cévennes – Jules Romains, Prélude à Verdun (1937) and Verdun (1938): Les Hommes de bonne volonté (1932-1947) – Jean Giraudoux, Siegfried et le Limousin (1922): Amnesotopia – The effect of war on individual memory in peacetime – André Chamson, L’Année des vaincus (1934): A Franco-German utopia/dystopia? – André Malraux, L’Espoir (1937): The Spanish Civil War, as a preliminary to the Second World War – Robert Brasillach, Les Sept Couleurs (1939): A rainbow too far – European Fascism and a divided France – On the margins: Julien Gracq, Un Balcon en forêt (1958) – Oneirotopia in conflict and wartime – France violated: Irène Némirovsky, Suite française ([1941/1942] 2004) – The labyrinth of defeat: Claude Simon, La Route des Flandres (1960) – The rape of eastern Europe: Jonathan Littell, Les Bienveillantes (2006) – the Nazi occupation in Soviet Russia, France, Hungary, Poland – Sweet Occupation? Suite française Part II «Dolce» – Irène Némirovsky’s novel on the German occupation of France – East and West: Political isotopias in André Malraux’s Les Noyers de l’Altenburg (1943) – The dark, dystopian night-time of the soul: André Chamson’s Le Puits des miracles (1945) – The conquest of a contested colonial space revisited: Robert Brasillach’s La Conquérante (1943) – Jean Dutourd, Au bon beurre (1952): A ‘cornutopia’ – Profiteering in Occupied France – France 1945: A space under reconstruction in Marcel Aymé’s Uranus (1948) – Ecotopia in Romain Gary’s Les Racines du ciel (1956) – Isotopias in invented autobiography: Four novels on the Occupation by Patrick Modiano.

Reviews

Peter Tame's book [...] is a major work of scholarship. (John Fletcher, Journal of European Studies 45(4) 2015)

With its close readings of a wide range of fictions of conflict, the monograph offers valuable insights into the imaginative and creative processes involved in their writing. (Angela Kimyongur, French Studies 71/2 2017) Peter Tame's book [...] is a major work of scholarship. (John Fletcher, Journal of European Studies 45(4) 2015)

Author Information

Peter D. Tame was Reader in French Studies at Queen’s University Belfast from 1999 to 2013. He specialises in the literary representation of ideology and politics in French fiction of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His recent publications include an annotated and fully edited translation of Robert Brasillach’s memoirs, entitled Before the War (2003), André Chamson 1900–1983: A Critical Biography (2006), and two co-edited volumes on war and memory, Mnemosyne and Mars: Artistic and Cultural Representations of Twentieth-Century Europe at War (2012) and The Long Aftermath: Historical and Cultural Legacies of Europe’s Wars 1936–1945 (2014). He has been awarded the Prix Robert Brasillach (1980) and the Académie Française’s Prix Hervé Deluen (2007).

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