Breaking with linearity – the ruling narrative model in the
Jewish-Christian tradition since the ancient world – many
20th-century European writers adopted circular narrative forms.
Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez shows this trend was not a unified nor
conscious movement, but rather a series of works arising
sporadically in different countries at different times, using a
variety of circular structures to express similar concerns and
ideas about the world. This study also shows how the renewed
understanding of narrative form leading to this circular trend was
anticipated by Nietzsche’s critiques of truth, knowledge,
language and metaphysics, and especially by his related discussions
of nihilism and the eternal recurrence. Starting with an analysis
of the theory and genealogy of linear narrative, the author charts
the emergence of Nietzsche’s idea of eternal return, before then
turning to the history of the circular narrative trend. This
history is explored from its inception, in the works of August
Strindberg, Gertrude Stein and Azorín; through its development in
the interwar years, by writers such as Raymond Queneau and Vladimir
Nabokov; to its full flowering in the work of authors James Joyce
or Samuel Beckett, among others; and its later employment by
post-war writers, including Alain Robbe-Grillet, Italo Calvino and
Maurice Blanchot. Through a series of close readings, the book aims
to highlight the various ways in which narrative circularity serves
to break with an essentially teleological and theological thinking.
Finally, Toribio Vazquez concludes by proposing a new typology of
non-linear narratives, which builds on the work of recent
narratologists.
General
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic USA
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
July 2022 |
| Authors: |
Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
248 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5013-8487-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-5013-8487-2 |
| Barcode: |
9781501384875 |
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