Title: Strangers and sojourners
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: History and criticism, French fiction, Judaism and literature, Jewish authors, Jews, Intellectual life, Jewish fiction, Jews in literature, Auteurs juifs, Etnisch bewustzijn, Literatur, Roman francʹais, Juifs dans la litterature, Schrijvers, Joden, Histoire et critique, Romans, Frans, Kulturelle Identitat, French fiction, history and criticism, Juifs dans la littérature, Roman français, Kulturelle Identität
Places: France
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PQ637.J4 L39 1999