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fiction and the representation of history in postwar France

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An edition of New novel, new wave, new politics (1996)

New novel, new wave, new politics

fiction and the representation of history in postwar France

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Until now, writings on the celebrated movements in literature and film that emerged in France in the mid-1950s - the New Novel and New Wave - have concentrated on their formal innovations, not on their engagement with history or politics.

New Novel, New Wave, New Politics overturns this traditional approach. Lynn A. Higgins argues that the New Novelists (e.g., Alain Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Marguerite Duras) and New Wave filmmakers (e.g., Claude Chabrol, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais) "engage in a kind of historiography....

They enact the conflicts, the double binds of postwar history and representation." Higgins claims that what art historian Serge Guilbaut has said of American Abstract Expressionism is equally true of the New Novel and New Wavethat its aesthetic innovations "provided a way for avant-garde artists to preserve their sense of social 'commitment'... while eschewing the art of propaganda and illustration. It was in a sense a political apoliticism."

  1. Higgins shows how the New Novel and New Wave are related developments. "While their individual styles and themes remain distinctive," she writes, "they share an ecriture that can be described as alternately, or interconnectedly, filmic and novelistic." New Wave filmmakers borrowed novelistic devices and made frequent literary allusions, while the "vision of the novelists is distinctly cinematic.".

A lively account that takes us to the crossroads where culture and politics meet, New Novel, New Wave, New Politics dramatically revises our view of a whole generation of important, influential artists.

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English
Pages
259

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-250) and index.

Published in
Lincoln
Series
Stages, Stages (Series)

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/658
Library of Congress
PN1995.3 .H54 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 259 p. :
Number of pages
259

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL783228M
Internet Archive
newnovelnewwaven0000higg
ISBN 10
0803223773
LCCN
95015226
OCLC/WorldCat
32348109
Goodreads
165703

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