Narrating from the archive
Subtitle: novels, records, and bureaucrats in the modern age
By: Marco Codebò.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Madison, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780838642054
Subjects: Archives in literature; Fiction -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The novel and the archive: prehistory; title: The novel and the archive: legitimation and challenge; title: I promessi sposi (1840). Storia della colonna infame by Alessandro Manzoni: the power of the archive; title: Balzac's La comedie humaine or the epic of the archive; title: Bouvard et Pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert: the brilliant stupidity of the archive; title: La vie mode d'emploi by Georges Perec: the archive as a game; title: Libra by Don Delillo: the archival novel in the autumn of the paper archive.