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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill Rodopi,
[2018]
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Series: | Faux titre ;
no. 419. |
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.