Authoritarian Fictions: The Ideological Novel as a Literary Genre PDF
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4)UT4J04^I I The Ideological Novel as a Genre Literary Susan Rubin Suleiman ^ Authoritarian Fictions :j^thoritarian Jpictions The Ideological Novel As a Literary Genre Susan Rubin Suleiman PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEWJERSEY Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, NewJersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Chichester, West Sussex Copyright © 1983 by Columbia University Press All Rights Reserved Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Suleiman, Susan Rubin, 1939- Authoritarian fictions: the ideological novel as a literary genre Susan Rubin Suleiman. / p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-691-01536-8 (pbk.) — — 1. French fiction 20th c—entury —History an—d criticism. 2. Literature and society France History 20th century. — 3. Political fiction, French History and criticism. 4. Authoritarianism in literature. 5. Literary form. 6. Propaganda. I. Title. PQ671.S94 1992 843'.9109—dc20 92-30219 First Princeton Paperback printing, with a new preface, 1993 Reprinted by arrangements with Columbia University Press Princeton University Press books are printed on acid-free paper and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources 987654321 10 Printed in the United States of America To my children To my mother To memory my the of father Contents Preface to the 1993 Edition ix Acknowledgments xxi Note on Translations xxv Introduction 1 Some Problems of (the) Genre: Definitions and Method 3 Modernity and the Roman a these 17 Chapter 1: "Exemplary" Narradves 25 The Parable As Exemplum 28 A Test of the Model: The Fable 45 "Exemplary" Narratives and the Roman a these 54 Chapter 2: The Structure of Apprenticeship 63 Bildungsroman and Roman a these: Bourget's L'Etape 64 Apprenticeship: The Positive Exemplary Version 74 Negative Apprenticeships 84 Chapter 3: The Structure of Confrontation 101 History As Myth: Nizan's Le Cheval de Troie 102 The Constraints of the Real: Barres' Le Roman de Venergie nationale 118 The Model Relativized: Malraux's L'f^poir 132 The Role of the Reader 141 Chapter 4: Redundancy and the "Readable" Text 149 The Notion of Redundancy in Linguistics 150 Redundancies in Realist Fiction 153 viii Contents Redundancies in the Roman a, these 171 Redundancy and the Problem of Evaluation 194 Chapter 5: Subversions, or the Play of Writing 199 "Irrelevant Details" 202 "Saying Too Much" 206 "Not Saying Enough" 223 Chapter 6: Conclusion 239 Reading for What? 239 Authority and Imitation: Sartre's 244 L'Enfance d'un chef Notes 257 Works Cited 283 Index 291
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