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Outrage and Insight - Modern French Writers and the 'Fait Divers' (Hardcover, First)
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Outrage and Insight - Modern French Writers and the 'Fait Divers' (Hardcover, First)
Series: Berg French Studies Series
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The Papin sisters, two maids who shocked France by savagely
butchering their mistress and her daughter; Violette Nozieres,
arrested for poisoning her mother and father; the serial murderer
Eugen Weidmann, the last man to be publicly guillotined in France;
Pierre Bastian, accused and tried for keeping his sister imprisoned
in the same room for twenty-five years in conditions of unspeakable
squalor; the mysterious 'affaire Gregory' which involved Marguerite
Duras in a nationwide scandal for publishing an article in a
national daily accusing a mother of murdering her own infant son:
these sordid tales, widely disseminated by the French press in
articles known as 'faits divers', have inflamed the imaginations of
French writers and intellectuals from Zola and de Beauvoir to
Barthes, Foucault and Lacan. Such news reports are the basis for
some of the most enduring characters in French fiction - Julian
Sorel, Emma Bovary and Therese Desqueyroux - and continue to
enthrall readers on a daily basis. This rigorous and fascinating
book is the only systematic study of the creative relationship
between French writers and intellectuals and the 'fait divers'. In
addition to finding inspiration in these items, many French
novelists and intellectuals have been moved to comment on the
psychological, social and judicial issues to which they habitually
give rise. The study of this phenomenon underscores the powerful
hold the sensational has exerted on the nation's psyche and shows
how the more lurid aspects of popular culture have fired the
imaginations not only of the 'masses' but of the intelligentsia as
well.
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