La documentation historique comme effet de vérité dans le roman contemporain
Author
Faculty Advisor
Date
2018
Keywords
citation, historical documents
Abstract (summary)
This article examines the citation of historical documents in Les Onze and HHhH, two novels inspired by
archival materials, with a first person narrator who styles himself as a historical expert. The citing of documents
should, according to historians, be a mark of the text’s reliability, although in these novels it does not always
provoke the desired result. Their respective appropriation of a historical style of writing plays with the reader’s
expectations and provokes interrogations as to how best to represent history.
Publication Information
EPP, Marla. 2018. « La documentation historique. Un effet de vérité dans le roman contemporain? », Captures, vol. 3, no 2 (novembre), dossier « Littérature suspecte». En ligne : revuecaptures.org/node/2831
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Item Type
Article
Language
French
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