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The Post-War Experimental Novel - British and French Fiction, 1945-75 (Hardcover)
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The Post-War Experimental Novel - British and French Fiction, 1945-75 (Hardcover)
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Delving into how the traumatic experience of the Second World War
formed - or perhaps malformed - the post-war experimental novel,
this book explores how the symbolic violence of post-war
normalization warped societies' perception of reality. Andrew
Hodgson explores how the novel was used by authors to attempt to
communicate in such a climate, building a memorial space that has
been omitted from literatures and societies of the post-war period.
Hodgson investigates this space as it is portrayed in experimental
modern British and French fiction, considering themes of amnesia,
myopia, delusion and dementia. Such themes are constantly referred
back to and posit in narrative a motive for the very broken forms
these books often take - books in boxes; of spare pages to be
shuffled at the reader's will; with holes in pages; missing whole
sections of the alphabet; or books written and then entirely
scrubbed out in smudged black ink. Covering the works of B. S.
Johnson, Ann Quin, Georges Perec, Roland Topor, Raymond Queneau and
others, Andrew Hodgson shows that there is method to the madness of
experimental fiction and legitimizes the form as a prominent
presence within a wider literary and historical movement in
European and American avant-garde literatures.
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