Flaubert, Beckett, NDiaye
Subtitle: the aesthetics, emotions and politics of failure
By: edited by Andrew Asibong and Aude Campmas
Series: Faux Titre -- volume 414; Faux titre -- no. 414.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9789004337152; 9789004337343
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; French literature; Textual Criticism; Failure (Psychology) in literature
Description: Gustave Flaubert, Samuel Beckett and Marie NDiaye can be considered as visionaries of a peculiarly radical form of failure, their protagonists and texts alike sliding inexorably into unmanageable states of paradox, incompletion and disintegration. What are the implications of these authors? experiments in splitting and negativity, experiments which seem to indulge the most cynical aspects of nihilism, whilst at the same time grappling with the very foundations of politicized and psychic truth? In this unusual edited volume of comparative analyses, Andrew Asibong and Aude Campmas bring together ten provocative and illuminating essays, each of which approaches the various 'failures' of the bizarre trio of canonical francophone writers along three principal axes of investigation: the aesthetic, the emotional and the political.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributions in English and French.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Andrew Asibong and Aude Campmas; title: Echoes of terence : 'rien d'humain' in the friends and neighbours of flaubert, beckett and NDiaye  -- Arthur Rose; title: 'Que prouve un insuccès?' re-cycling failure in flaubert and beckett  -- Kate Rees; title: Lieux communs en héritage : de flaubert à Marie NDiaye, de quoi sont-ils le nom  -- Chloé Brendlé; title: L'idiotie en famille : rhétorique et politique de l'idiot chez flaubert et beckett  -- Marie Berne; title: 'May I be alive when I die!' dreaming of (re)animation in flaubert, beckett and NDiaye  -- Andrew Asibong; title: Objet petit 'Ah!' : backstory dramas and sentimental histories in flaubert's L'¡ducation sentimentale and beckett's la dernière bande  -- Mary Orr; title: Failure and impure narcissism in oh les beaux jours and 'une journée de brulard'  -- William McKenzie; title: From paradox to excess : flaubert's bouvard et pécuchet and beckett's L'Innommable  -- Tobias Haberkorn; title: L'̌chec comme attaque : les romans clastiques de gustave flaubert et Marie NDiaye -- Aude Campmas-- Index.