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This book discusses the relationship between the archive and the novel from Early Modernity to the digital age. The encounter between archival and novelistic discourses results in the archival novel, a fictional genre where the archive frames the readers' apprehension of the text. Archival fictions are self-reflexive texts that foreground the twofold role the archive plays in the composition of novels; providing novelists with reliable knowledge and organizing the written materials (notes, records, plans) that make writing possible. While the nineteenth century archival novels rely on the archive to guarantee their claims to truth, in the twentieth century they tend to expose the archive as a practice tied to social and political power. When the digital database started to replace the paper archive in the 1970s, the epistemic and technological foundation of the novel began to erode - a process that ultimately will render the novel an outdated cognitive tool.

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In order to explore the relationship between the novel and the archive from early modernity to the dawn of the digital age, Codeb (French and Italian, Long Island U., New York) focuses on the archival novel, a fiction genre in which the narrative stores records, bureaucratic writing informs language, and the archive functions as a semiotic frame that structures the text's content and meaning. Among his topics are Balzac's die humaine/> or the epic of the archive, the brilliant stupidity of the archive in cuchet/> by Gustave Flaubert, and by Don DeLillo as an example of the archival novel in the autumn of the paper archive. * Book News, Inc. * With the rise of postmodernism, the relationship between fiction and the archives has become an important area of scholastic exploration. Marco Codebo takes this exploration in new and intriguing directions in Narrating from the Archive. * The American Archivist *

In order to explore the relationship between the novel and the archive from early modernity to the dawn of the digital age, Codeb<'o> (French and Italian, Long Island U., New York) focuses on the archival novel, a fiction genre in which the narrative stores records, bureaucratic writing informs language, and the archive functions as a semiotic frame that structures the text's content and meaning. Among his topics are Balzac's </La Com<'e>die humaine/> or the epic of the archive, the brilliant stupidity of the archive in </Bouvard et P<'e>cuchet/> by Gustave Flaubert, and </Libra/> by Don DeLillo as an example of the archival novel in the autumn of the paper archive. Back Stage West:The Actors Trade Paper

In order to explore the relationship between the novel and the archive from early modernity to the dawn of the digital age, Codeb (French and Italian, Long Island U., New York) focuses on the archival novel, a fiction genre in which the narrative stores records, bureaucratic writing informs language, and the archive functions as a semiotic frame that structures the text's content and meaning. Among his topics are Balzac's die humaine/> or the epic of the archive, the brilliant stupidity of the archive in cuchet/> by Gustave Flaubert, and by Don DeLillo as an example of the archival novel in the autumn of the paper archive. Book News

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Marco Codebo is assistant professor of French and Italian at Long Island University.

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