World War II in Andreï Makine's historiographic metafiction : : "No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten" /

World War II in Andreï Makine's historiographic metafiction : : "No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten" / / Helena Duffy.

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Can it be ever possible to write about war in a work of fiction? asks a protagonist of one of Makine’s strongly metafictional and intensely historical novels. Helena Duffy’s World War II in Andreï Makine’s Historiographic Metafiction redirects this question at the Franco-Russian author’s fiction its...

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Superior document:Faux titre, Volume 419
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Duffy, Helena,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi,, [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Faux titre ; Volume 419.
Physical Description:1 online resource (340 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Andrei Makine, the Great Fatherland War, the historical novel and (Russian) postmodernism
  • Andreï Makine's novels as historiographic metafictions
  • The hero of the Soviet Union : from victor to victim
  • The war invalid : the samovar, the kommunalka and the docile body, or the dialectic of fragmentation and plenitude
  • The Jew : between victimhood and complicity, or how an army-dodger and rootless cosmopolitan has become a saintly ogre
  • The Blokadnik : a saintly prostitute or a heroic defender of Leningrad?
  • Conclusions : writing history of World War II as a prophet.

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