Subjects not-at-home : forms of the uncanny in the contemporary French novel : Emmanuel Carrère, Marie NDiaye, Eugène Savitzkaya / / Daisy Connon.

• Superior document: Faux titre ; 347
• Author: Connon, Daisy.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Faux titre ; no. 347.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (291 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 1282727052; 9786612727054; 9042030062
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Daisy Connon.

Subjects Not-at-home is the first book-length study of the concept of the uncanny ( Das Unheimliche ) in the context of French literature. It explores the ways in which certain contemporary French novelists are exploiting the themes, imagery and dynamics of the uncanny to generate a repertoire of narrative tactics for the portrayal of the chez soi . Through an analysis of nine novels by Marie NDiaye, Eugène Savitzkaya and Emmanuel Carrère, the author reveals a developing tendency within current writing to re-appropriate figures of the strange – the double, intellectual uncertainty, the fragmented body, the spectral, the haunted house – in order to represent the ‘familiar’ spaces of the home, the family, the self and the everyday. This problematic is situated with respect to tendencies in present-day French writing, with the uncanny being viewed as a particular approach to the contemporary novel’s inclination to privilege the site of the chez soi . Readings of the literary texts are informed by philosophical, psychoanalytic and literary reinterpretations of the Freudian uncanny, with an emphasis on the historical and contextual evolution of the concept itself.