Defective Inspectors
Subtitle: Crime-fiction Pastiche in Late Twentieth-century French Literature (Legenda Main Series) (Legenda Main Series)
Publisher: Legenda
Published: December 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9781904350514
Subjects: Crime & mystery; Novels, other prose & writers; 20th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; France; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Detective and mystery stories, French; French fiction; History and criticism; Parody in literature
Description: Crime fiction is a popular target for literary pastiche in France. From the nouveau roman and the Oulipo group to the current avant-garde, writers have seized on the genre to exploit it for their own ends, toying with its traditional plots and characters, and exploring its preoccupations with perception, reason and truth. In the first full-length study of the phenomenon, Simon Kemp's investigation centres on four major writers of the twentieth century, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Michel Butor, Georges Perec and Jean Echenoz. Out of their varied encounters with the genre, from deconstruction of the classic detective story to homage to the roman noir, Kemp elucidates the complex relationship between the pasticheur and his target, which demands an entirely new assessment of pastiche as a literary form.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Reflecting
pagenum: 6; label: 2
title: Connecting
pagenum: 41; label: 3
title: Completing
pagenum: 64; label: 4
title: Evidence
pagenum: 83; label: 5
title: Reason
pagenum: 105; label: 6
title: Truth
pagenum: 127