Diaries Real and Fictional in Twentieth-Century French Writing
Sam Ferguson
Oxford University Press, collection "Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs", 2018
ISBN: 9780198814535 — 272 p. — 65,00 £
Oxford University Press is thrilled to announce the publication of Diaries Real and Fictional in Twentieth-Century French Writing by Sam Ferguson, Junior Research Fellow, Christ Church, University of Oxford.
This book provides the first historical account of the diary in French writing across the twentieth century. The diary came to prominence as a genre in France in the 1880s and since this time, writers have grappled with its double nature as a private writing practice and a public literary form.
A series of studies on works by André Gide, Raymond Queneau, Roland Barthes, and Annie Ernaux follows these authors' varied experiments with the diary – in both fictional and nonfictional forms – and reveals its importance in French literary life.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Part I: André Gide's diary-writing
1: Les Cahiers d'André Walter
2: Paludes
3: Le Journal des Faux-monnayeurs
4: The Journal 1889-1939
Part II: Diary-writing after Gide
5: Raymond Queneau's Œuvres complètes de Sally Mara
6: The Return of the diary in Barthes's 'Vita Nova'
7: Annie Ernaux: The place of the diary in modern life-writing
Conclusion