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Diaries Real and Fictional in Twentieth-Century French Writing (Hardcover)
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Diaries Real and Fictional in Twentieth-Century French Writing (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
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This volume is the first study of the diary in French writing
across the twentieth century, as a genre which includes both
fictional and non-fictional works. From the 1880s it became
apparent to writers in France that their diaries-a supposedly
private form of writing -would probably come to be published,
strongly affecting the way their readers viewed their other
published works, and their very persona as an author. More than any
other, Andre Gide embraced the literary potential of the diary: the
first part of this book follows his experimentation with the diary
in the fictional works Les Cahiers d'Andre Walter (1891) and
Paludes (1895), in his diary of the composition of his great novel,
Le Journal des faux-monnayeurs (1926), and in his monumental
Journal 1889-1939 (1939). The second part follows developments in
diary-writing after the Second World War, inflected by radical
changes in attitudes towards the writing subject. Raymond Queneau's
works published under the pseudonym of Sally Mara (1947-1962) used
the diary playfully at a time when the writing subject was
condemned by the literary avant-garde. Roland Barthes's experiments
with the diary (1977-1979) took it to the extremes of its formal
possibilities, at the point of a return of the writing subject.
Annie Ernaux's published diaries (1993-2011) demonstrate the role
of the diary in the modern field of life-writing. Throughout the
century, the diary has repeatedly been used to construct an oeuvre
and author, but also to call these fundamental literary concepts
into question.
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