{"title":"In the Echenozian Discomfort Zone: Desire and Creativity in the Shadow of Death","authors":"Emer O’Beirne","doi":"10.1353/esp.2023.a901820","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Critics welcomed a return to richly plotted imaginative fiction in Jean Echenoz’s most recent novels (Envoyée spéciale, 2016; Vie de Gérard Fulmard, 2020). Yet these novels are also striking for how they intensify a previously perceptible posture of narratorial fatigue, even to the point of death, as well as for their staging of self-conscious stylistic poverty. More than the seductions of plot, they foreground the seductive “grain” of the storytelling voice, its offering of jouissance through breaches of the fictional world (intertextual allusion, versificatory units etc), now in the mode of decline and failure.","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2023.a901820","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, ROMANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Critics welcomed a return to richly plotted imaginative fiction in Jean Echenoz’s most recent novels (Envoyée spéciale, 2016; Vie de Gérard Fulmard, 2020). Yet these novels are also striking for how they intensify a previously perceptible posture of narratorial fatigue, even to the point of death, as well as for their staging of self-conscious stylistic poverty. More than the seductions of plot, they foreground the seductive “grain” of the storytelling voice, its offering of jouissance through breaches of the fictional world (intertextual allusion, versificatory units etc), now in the mode of decline and failure.
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For more than forty years, L"Esprit Créateur has published studies on French and Francophone literature, film, criticism, and culture. The journal features articles representing a variety of methodologies and critical approaches. Exploring all periods of French literature and thought, L"Esprit Créateur focuses on topics that define French and Francophone Studies today.
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