The Filiation Narrative in the Contemporary French Novel : Jean Rouaud and the Quest for the Absent Master
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich |
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| web | https://czasopisma.ltn.lodz.pl/Zagadnienia-Rodzajow-Literackich/article/view/2053 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2023/66.1/6 |
| Keywords | Jean Rouaud; absent father; filiation narrative; Invention of the author; metatextual dimension of the text |
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| Description | In this paper, two of Rouaud's texts — L’Invention de l’auteur and La Désincarnation — are mainly discussed. Our aim is to demonstrate that the story of filiation appears very symptomatic of a new historical situation at the beginning of the twenty-first century, which seems to be written without a “Master” both on the literary and spiritual levels. Thus, there arises the need to accommodate the “ideologies of the end” that appear at the moment when the author enters the literary scene. By trying to establish an impossible dialogue with the Absent, Rouaud voluntarily becomes the archivist of the end of a certain world. We focus on the ways of establishing the link between the search for a father and the observation of the absence of the Father and an attempt to fill in this absence by searching other literary models. Jean Rouaud; absent father; filiation narrative; Invention of the author; metatextual dimension of the text. |
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