Transfictions et problématique du sens. Le cas d’Echenoz

• Authors: Maziarczyk Anna

Title variants

EN

Transfictions and the Problem of Meaning. The Case of Jean Echenoz

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

Un an and Je m’en vais by Jean Echenoz, two seemingly independent novels, constitute in fact an instance of transfiction, or rather a novelistic diptych, subtly embedded in the common fictional universe by means of various textual elements such as characters, setting and diegetic analogies. Its aim is not only the unusual extension and expansion of the original fiction, based on ambiguous narration, full of understatements and contradictions, which suggests rather than tells a story in a classic way. Both texts show many extended thematic similarities, which further emphasize their structural complementarity and give it a deeper meaning. Referring to selected theories of transfiction, this article explores the way in which Echenoz plays with the conventions of serial literature and uses them to show in two versions the vicissitudes of human affairs.

Keywords

EN

transfiction; serial literature; meaning; human condition; Jean Echenoz

• Publisher: Komisja Nauk Filologicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Oddział we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Academic Journal of Modern Philology
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 9
• Pages: 331-338

Contributors

author

Maziarczyk Anna

• Université Marie Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin

Identifiers

DOI

doi:10.34616/ajmp.2020.9