World War II in Andreï Makine's historiographic metafiction : "No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten" /

"Can it be ever possible to write about war in a work of fiction? asks a protagonist of one of Makine's strongly metafictional and intensely historical novels. Helena Duffy's World War II in Andreï Makine's Historiographic Metafiction redirects this question at the Franco-Russia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Duffy, Helena (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2018]
Colección:Faux titre ; no. 419.
Temas:
Makine, Andreï, > 1957- > Criticism and interpretation.
Makine, Andreï, > 1957-
1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Littérature et guerre.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
War and literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Andreï Makine, the Great Fatherland War, the historical novel and (Russian) postmodernism
  • Andreï Makine's novels as historiographic metafictions
  • The hero of the Soviet Union : from victor to victim
  • The war invalid : the samovar, the kommunalka and the docile body, or the dialectic of fragmentation and plenitude
  • The Jew : between victimhood and complicity, or how an army-dodger and rootless cosmopolitan has become a saintly ogre
  • The Blokadnik : a saintly prostitute or a heroic defender of Leningrad?
  • Conclusions : writing history of World War II as a prophet.

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