Strangers and sojourners
Subtitle: Jewish identity in contemporary francophone fiction
By: Joyce Block Lazarus.
Series: Francophone cultures and literatures ;; v. 26
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
Subjects: French fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.; French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Jews -- France -- Intellectual life.; Jewish fiction -- History and criticism.; Judaism and literature -- France.; Jews in literature.
Description: "Strangers and Sojourners demonstrates that there is a distinctive French Jewish literature today, characterized not by its authors' common nationality, but by their identification with a Jewish collectivity and with French language and culture. The six authors in this study, Memmi, Wiesel, Schwarz-Bart, Perec, Modiano, and Jacques, all writing after Auschwitz, engage in a quest for a modern Jewish consciousness.

Torn between the opposing pulls of Judaism and French cultural values, they exhibit their tension and ambivalent feelings through the themes and structure of their fiction, and in their ambiguous relationship with the French language."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-141).