Flaubert, Beckett, Ndiaye

The Aesthetics, Emotions and Politics of Failure
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-33715-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Französisch, Band 414, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

Reihe: Faux Titre

Gustave Flaubert, Samuel Beckett and Marie NDiaye can be considered as visionaries of a peculiarly radical form of failure, their protagonists and texts alike sliding inexorably into unmanageable states of paradox, incompletion and disintegration. What are the implications of these authors’ experiments in splitting and negativity, experiments which seem to indulge the most cynical aspects of nihilism, whilst at the same time grappling with the very foundations of politicized and psychic truth? In this unusual edited volume of comparative analyses, Andrew Asibong and Aude Campmas bring together ten provocative and illuminating essays, each of which approaches the various ‘failures’ of the bizarre trio of canonical francophone writers along three principal axes of investigation: the aesthetic, the emotional and the political.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Asibong, Andrew

Campmas, Aude

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Andrew Asibong and Aude Campmas
Echoes of Terence: ‘Rien d’humain’ in the friends and neighbours of Flaubert, Beckett and NDiaye, Arthur Rose
Que prouve un insuccès?’ Re-cycling failure in Flaubert and Beckett, Kate Rees
Lieux communs en héritage: de Flaubert à Marie NDiaye, de quoi sont-ils le nom?, Chloé Brendlé
L’idiotie en famille: Rhétorique et politique de l’idiot chez Flaubert et Beckett, Marie Berne
‘May I be alive when I die!’ Dreaming of (re)animation in Flaubert, Beckett and NDiaye, Andrew Asibong
Objet petit ‘Ah!’: backstory dramas and sentimental histories in Flaubert’s L’Education sentimentale and Beckett’s La Dernière Bande, Mary Orr
Failure and impure narcissism in Oh les beaux jours and ‘Une journée de Brulard’, William McKenzie
From paradox to excess: Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet and Beckett’s L’Innommable, Tobias Haberkorn
L’échec comme attaque: les romans clastiques de Gustave Flaubert et Marie Ndiaye, Aude Campmas

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Asibong, Ph.D (King’s College London, 2004) is Reader in Film and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, Co-Director of Birkbeck Research in Aesthetics of Kinship and Community, and author of Marie NDiaye: Blankness and Recognition (LUP, 2013) and François Ozon (MUP, 2008).

Aude Campmas, Ph.D (Université Paris 7, 2008) is Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Southampton. Her current research interests include the relation between science and literature and the representation of the ‘monstrous family' in francophone literature.