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Late Europeans and melanchology fiction at the turn of the Millennium/ Ian Ellison.

9783030954475 (electronic bk.)
3030954471 (electronic bk.)
3030954463
9783030954468

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

English

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10.1007/978-3-030-95447-5 doi

PN3503

809.3994

This book is the first comparative study of novels by Patrick Modiano, W. G. Sebald, and Antonio Munoz Molina. Drawing on many literary figures, movements, and traditions, from the Spanish Golden Age, to German Romanticism, to French philosophy, via Jewish modernist literature, Ian Ellison offers a fresh perspective on European fiction published around the turn of the millennium. Reflecting on what makes European fiction European, this book examines how certain novels understand themselves to be culturally and historically late, expressing a melancholy awareness of how the past and present are irreconcilable. Within this framework, however, it considers how backwards-facing, tradition-oriented self-consciousness, burdened by a sense of exhaustion in European culture and the violence of its past, may yet suggest the potential for re-enchantment in the face of obsolescence. Ian Ellison divides his time as a DAAD PRIME postdoctoral research fellow between the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK, their Paris School of Arts & Culture, France, and the Goethe-Universitat in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. This is his first book.

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Palgrave studies in modern European literature.

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Print version: 9783030954468
LATE EUROPEANS AND MELANCHOLY FICTION AT THE TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM.

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