The documentary imagination in twentieth-century French literature: writing with facts
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2020
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| Abstract: | "This book studies the documentary impulse that plays a central role in twentieth-century French literature. Focusing on nonfiction narratives, it analyzes the use of documents-pieces of textual or visual evidence incorporated into the literary work to relay and interrogate reality. It traces the emergence of an enduring concern with factual reference in texts that engage with current events or the historical archive. Writers idealize the document as a fragment of raw reality, but also reveal its constructed and mediated nature and integrate it as a voice within a larger composition. This ambivalent documentary imagination, present in works by Gide, Breton, Aragon, Yourcenar, Duras, and Modiano (among others), shapes literature's relationship to visual media, testimonial discourses, and self-representation. Far from turning away from realism in the twentieth century, French literature often turns to the document as a site of both modernist experiment and engagement with the world"-- |
| Umfang: | xiv, 260 Seiten Illustrationen |
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| adam_text | Table of Contents List of Illustrations List ofAbbreviations Note on the Text Introduction: Speaking Facts Realist Notations: From Detail to Document Literature, Photography, and the Filmic Imagination Evidence, Index, Imprint Fact and Fiction A Typology of Documentary Insertions Chapter Summary xi xiii xv 1 5 13 17 22 28 30 1. Outrageously Real: André Gides Documentary Modernism Literature and Current Events Gide’s Documentary Space Facing Facts: The fait divers and the Limits of Literature Voice and Verification: Souvenirs de la cour d’assises Gide as “Naturalist”: ĽAffaire Redureau Dismantling Documents: La Séquestrée de Poitiers Recording the Congo (Gide/Allégret) Strange Beauty: Staging Africa “I Must Speak”: Relaying Voices 33 35 39 42 47 53 57 64 66 73 2. “Pris sur le vif”: The Surrealist Poetics of the Document Automatism and Surrealist Documents The Photographic Paradigm From Documents to Documentary Prose Between Document and Myth: Aragon’s Le Paysan de Paris Uncanny Documents in Bretons Nadja Between Aesthetics and Ethnography: Documents and Beyond Bataille and the Document as Fetish Collecting Documents: Science, Missions, and Museums 77 80 84 87 88 104 110 111 116 3. Family Relics: Marguerite Yourcenar s Archival Autobiography Externalizing Memory Autobiography and the D ocument Memory’s Materials in Yourcenar What’s Hadrian to Her? Yourcenar, History, and Fiction “This is Not about Me”: Selfhood and Self-Erasure Mementos and Relics 123 125 128 130 131 135 143
X TABLE OF CONTENTS The Novelist as Necromancer Time Regained Yourcenar’s Modernism 4. Paper Witnesses: Documentary Memory after World War II The Document between History and Memory The Document as Witness The Invention of the Witness (1944-1950) “The Document Alone Matters” (Sartre, Tournier, Sarraute) Postmemory and Documentary Distance (1970s-1980s) Documentary Resurgence (Duras) Documentary Disjunctions at the End of the Century (Modiano) Beyond France: Fiction and Testimony at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Epilogue: Documents in the Digital Age Bibliography Index 150 156 159 162 164 167 172 174 179 181 190 199 205 219 247
The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature identifies a documentary impulse in French literature that emerges at the end of the nineteenth century and culminates in a proliferation of factual writings in the twenty-first. Focusing on the period bookended by these two moments, it highlights the enduring concern with factual reference in texts that engage either with current events or the historical archive. Specifically, it considers a set of ideas and practices centered on the conceptualization and use of documents. In doing so, it contests the widespread narrative that twentieth-century French literature abandons the realist enterprise, and argues that writers instead renegotiate the realist legacy outside, or at the margins of, the fictional space of the novel. Analyzing works by authors including Gide, Breton, Aragon, Yourcenar, Duras, and Modiano, the book defines a specific documentary mode of literary representation that records, assembles, and investigates material traces of reality. The document is a textual, visual, or material piece of evidence repurposed through its visual insertion, textual transcription, or description within a literary work. It is a fact, but it also becomes a figure, standing for literature’s confrontation with the real. The documentary imagination involves a fantasy of direct access to a reality that speaks for itself. At the same time, it gives rise to concrete textual practices that open up new directions for literature by ^terrogating the construction and interpretation of facts. ILíAà* -և.
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