Defective Inspectors: Crime-fiction Pastiche in Late Twentieth-century French Literature
by
Simon Kemp
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1904350518
ISBN-13
9781904350514
Publisher
Maney Publishing
Imprint
Maney Publishing
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 1st, 2006
Print length
176 Pages
Weight
544 grams
Dimensions
25.60 x 17.10 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersCrime & mystery
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Defective Inspectors: Crime-fiction Pastiche in Late Twentieth-century French Literature
Crime fiction is a popular target for literary pastiche in France. From the nouveau roman and the Oulipo group to the current avant-garde, writers have seized on the genre to exploit it for their own ends, toying with its traditional plots and characters, and exploring its preoccupations with perception, reason and truth. In the first full-length study of the phenomenon, Simon Kemp''s investigation centres on four major writers of the twentieth century, Alain Robbe-Grillet (b. 1922), Michel Butor (b. 1926), Georges Perec (193682) and Jean Echenoz (b. 1947). Out of their varied encounters with the genre, from deconstruction of the classic detective story to homage to the roman noir, Kemp elucidates the complex relationship between the pasticheur and his target, which demands an entirely new assessment of pastiche as a literary form.
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