Flaubert, Beckett, NDiaye : : the aesthetics, emotions and politics of failure / / edited by Andrew Asibong and Aude Campmas.

Gustave Flaubert, Samuel Beckett and Marie NDiaye can be considered as visionaries of a peculiarly radical form of failure, their protagonists and texts alike sliding inexorably into unmanageable states of paradox, incompletion and disintegration. What are the implications of these authors’ experime...

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Superior document:Faux Titre ; 414
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : BRILL,, 2017.
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Faux Titre 414.
Physical Description:1 online resource (176 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction / Andrew Asibong and Aude Campmas
  • Echoes of Terence: ‘Rien d’humain’ in the Friends and Neighbours of Flaubert, Beckett and NDiaye / Arthur Rose
  • ‘Que prouve un insuccès?’ Re-cycling Failure in Flaubert and Beckett / Kate Rees
  • Lieux communs en héritage: de Flaubert à Marie NDiaye, de quoi sont-ils le nom? / Chloé Brendlé
  • L’idiotie en famille: Rhétorique et politique de l’idiot chez Flaubert et Beckett / Marie Berne
  • ‘May I be Alive when I die!’ Dreaming of (re)animation in Flaubert, Beckett and NDiaye / Andrew Asibong
  • Objet petit ‘Ah!’: Backstory Dramas and Sentimental Histories in Flaubert’s L’Éducation sentimentale and Beckett’s La Dernière bande / Mary Orr
  • Failure and Impure Narcissism in Oh les beaux jours and ‘Une journée de Brulard’ / William McKenzie
  • From Paradox to Excess: Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet and Beckett’s L’Innommable / Tobias Haberkorn
  • L’échec comme attaque: les romans clastiques de Gustave Flaubert et Marie NDiaye / Aude Campmas
  • Index.