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Small Worlds examines the minimalist pattern in French writing, from the early Nineteen Eighties to the current. Warren Motte first considers the perform of minimalism in different media, reminiscent of the plastic arts and song, after which proposes a theoretical version of minimalist literature. next chapters are dedicated to the paintings of quite a few modern French writers and a variety of literary genres.

In his dialogue of minimalism, Motte considers smallness and ease, a discount of capability (and the ensuing amplification of effect), immediacy, directness, readability, repetition, symmetry, and playfulness. He argues that economic system of expression bargains writers a manner of renovating conventional literary varieties and lets them symbolize human event extra directly.

Motte presents shut readings of novels via wonderful modern French writers, together with Edmond Jabès, Annie Ernaux, Hervé Guibert, Marie Redonnet, Jean Echenoz, Olivier Targowla, and Emmanuèle Bernheim, demonstrating that besides the fact that various their paintings may well rather be, they've got all exploited the primary of formal financial system of their writing.

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