The flight of the angels : intertextuality in four novels by Boris Vian
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The flight of the angels : intertextuality in four novels by Boris Vian
(Faux titre, no. 167)
Rodopi, 1999
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
It is a close study of four novels by Boris Vian. It aims to show how L'Ecume des jours, L'Automne a Pekin, L'Herbe rouge and L'Arrache-coeur form a unified and coherent tetralogy. By establishing close links between these four texts, it becomes possible to achieve a more comprehensive understanding, not only of the significance of the tetralogy in exposing a complex and multi-layered novelistic strategy at the heart of the vianesque, but of the individual novels as autonomous creations. An examination of the novels reveals that they are not merely joined to one another via a superficial network of textual similarities (that which I refer to as intratextuality), but that this intertwining is emblematic of a common method of narrative construction. Each Vian novel is dependent, for a thorough understanding of the text to be possible, upon the multiple lines of external influence running through it. The sources of this influence (which I refer to as intertextuality) are located in various major texts of twentieth century literature, anglophone as well as francophone. Thus, in each instance the narrative is driven by a complicated interaction of intratextuality and intertextuality.
Table of Contents
Foreword. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Introduction. Chapter One: L'Ecume des jours: From 'Clins d'oeil' to Intertextuality. Chapter Two: L'Ecume des jours: Mac Orlan, Queneau et un autre. Chapter Three: L'Automne a Pekin: Entry into the Text. Chapter Four: L'Automne a Pekin: And what they found there. Chapter Five: L'Herbe rouge: The Problem with Science Fiction. Chapter Six: L'Herbe rouge: Dreams or Memories. Chapter Seven: L'Arrache-Coeur: Revenge. Chapter Eight: L'Arrache-Coeur: Sacrifice and Return. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.
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