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World War II in Andreï Makineâs Historiographic Metafiction
âNo One Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Forgottenâ
Series: - Faux Titre, Volume: 419
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Can it be ever possible to write about war in a work of fiction? asks a protagonist of one of Makineâs strongly metafictional and intensely historical novels. Helena Duffyâs World War II in Andreï Makineâs Historiographic Metafiction redirects this question at the Franco-Russian authorâs fiction itself by investigating its portrayal of Soviet involvement in the struggle against Hitler. To write back into the history of the Great Fatherland War its unmourned victims â invalids, Jews, POWs, women or starving Leningraders â is the self-acknowledged ambition of a novelist committed to the postmodern empowerment of those hitherto silenced by dominant historiographies. Whether Makine succeeds at giving voice to those whose suffering jarred with the triumphalist narrative of the war concocted by Soviet authorities is the central concern of Duffyâs book.
Helena Duffy, MSt (Oxon), PhD (Oxford Brookes), is Marie SkÅodowska-Curie Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Senior Lecturer in French at the University of WrocÅaw in Poland. She has published widely on non-native French novelists, contemporary cinema and cultural representations of the Holocaust.
"Helena Duffy réfute lâappartenance de lâoeuvre de lâécrivain au post-modernisme puisque dans ce même contexte la Seconde Guerre mondiale est considérée sous un angle tout à fait différent voire opposé (pp. 284-285). Duffy réussit à démontrer lâincongruité gênante entre la poétique makinienne, générant lâémotion du lecteur par la beauté littéraire, et le message politique quâelle sous-tend, cette incongruité faisant partie dâune stratégie littéraire manipulatrice."
- Isabelle Dotan, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, H-French Review, vol. 19 (May 2019), no 73.
"Pour quiconque désirera commencer un travail académique sur Makine, ce livre sera désormais incontournable."
- Timo Obergöker, Romanica Wratislaviensia 66, 2019.
- Isabelle Dotan, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, H-French Review, vol. 19 (May 2019), no 73.
"Pour quiconque désirera commencer un travail académique sur Makine, ce livre sera désormais incontournable."
- Timo Obergöker, Romanica Wratislaviensia 66, 2019.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Authorâs Note
Abbreviations of the Titles of Andreï Makineâs Novels
Introduction: Andreï Makine, the Great Fatherland War, the Historical Novel and (Russian) Postmodernism 1 Andreï Makineâs Novels as Historiographic Metafictions âIntroduction: from Architecture to Metafiction âThe Orphans of History: The Good German, the Kind Ivan and the Virtuous âMobile Field Wifeâ âHistoricity, Rewriting and Nostalgia âCan It Ever Be Possible to Write about War in a Novel? âVeracity vs. Verisimilitude âThe Textuality of Knowledge, the Limits of Cognition and the Role of Documents in Historical Inquiry ââThe Presence of the Pastâ âThe Politics of Andreï Makineâs Fiction 2 The Hero of the Soviet Union: From Victor to Victim âIntroduction âThe Soviet Union Is No More â Its Heroes Live On âThe Intelligible Body âIvanâs Childhood âFathers, Mothers and Sons âIvan in the Mirror âIvanâs War(s) âSpeak, Memory âFrom Berlin to Beriozhka âConclusions 3 The War Invalid: The Samovar, the Kommunalka and the Docile Body, or the Dialectic of Fragmentation and Plenitude âIntroduction: âThe Heroic Flotsam and Jetsam of Historyâ âWritten on the Body âThe âUgly Vestiges of the Warâ: Sasha Semyonov and Pyotr Evdokimov âThe Amputee and the Fragmented Narrative âThe Poetics of Fragment: Archaeology and Fresco Painting âThe Common Places: The Communal Apartment and Courtyard âCharlotte, Put the Samovar on âRequiem for the Lost Empire âConclusions 4 The Jew: Between Victimhood and Complicity, or How an Army-Dodger and Rootless Cosmopolitan Has Become a Saintly Ogre âIntroduction âThe Holocaust as a Non-Event and Russian/Soviet Anti-Semitism âThe Jew as the Postmodern Other âThere Are Jews in Makineâs Oeuvre but There Is No Jewish Question âThe Kholokaust and the Grey Zone ââJews Are Fighting the War in Tashkentâ âThe Jewâs Redemptive Phoria âFrom Superfluous Man to Homo Sovieticus âConclusions 5 The Blokadnik: A Saintly Prostitute or a Heroic Defender of Leningrad? âIntroduction âTaking the Piss out of the Blockade âThe Homo Sacer: Steadfastness, Solidarity, Sacrifice, Sostradanie and Serenity âLeningradâs Saintly Prostitutes âThe Siege as a Gendered Experience: Heroic Fighters and Holy Blockade Women ââAll for One and One for Allâ âThe City of Culture or the Uncanny City âNo One Is Forgotten âConclusions Conclusions. Writing History of World War II as a Prophet Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments
Authorâs Note
Abbreviations of the Titles of Andreï Makineâs Novels
Introduction: Andreï Makine, the Great Fatherland War, the Historical Novel and (Russian) Postmodernism 1 Andreï Makineâs Novels as Historiographic Metafictions âIntroduction: from Architecture to Metafiction âThe Orphans of History: The Good German, the Kind Ivan and the Virtuous âMobile Field Wifeâ âHistoricity, Rewriting and Nostalgia âCan It Ever Be Possible to Write about War in a Novel? âVeracity vs. Verisimilitude âThe Textuality of Knowledge, the Limits of Cognition and the Role of Documents in Historical Inquiry ââThe Presence of the Pastâ âThe Politics of Andreï Makineâs Fiction 2 The Hero of the Soviet Union: From Victor to Victim âIntroduction âThe Soviet Union Is No More â Its Heroes Live On âThe Intelligible Body âIvanâs Childhood âFathers, Mothers and Sons âIvan in the Mirror âIvanâs War(s) âSpeak, Memory âFrom Berlin to Beriozhka âConclusions 3 The War Invalid: The Samovar, the Kommunalka and the Docile Body, or the Dialectic of Fragmentation and Plenitude âIntroduction: âThe Heroic Flotsam and Jetsam of Historyâ âWritten on the Body âThe âUgly Vestiges of the Warâ: Sasha Semyonov and Pyotr Evdokimov âThe Amputee and the Fragmented Narrative âThe Poetics of Fragment: Archaeology and Fresco Painting âThe Common Places: The Communal Apartment and Courtyard âCharlotte, Put the Samovar on âRequiem for the Lost Empire âConclusions 4 The Jew: Between Victimhood and Complicity, or How an Army-Dodger and Rootless Cosmopolitan Has Become a Saintly Ogre âIntroduction âThe Holocaust as a Non-Event and Russian/Soviet Anti-Semitism âThe Jew as the Postmodern Other âThere Are Jews in Makineâs Oeuvre but There Is No Jewish Question âThe Kholokaust and the Grey Zone ââJews Are Fighting the War in Tashkentâ âThe Jewâs Redemptive Phoria âFrom Superfluous Man to Homo Sovieticus âConclusions 5 The Blokadnik: A Saintly Prostitute or a Heroic Defender of Leningrad? âIntroduction âTaking the Piss out of the Blockade âThe Homo Sacer: Steadfastness, Solidarity, Sacrifice, Sostradanie and Serenity âLeningradâs Saintly Prostitutes âThe Siege as a Gendered Experience: Heroic Fighters and Holy Blockade Women ââAll for One and One for Allâ âThe City of Culture or the Uncanny City âNo One Is Forgotten âConclusions Conclusions. Writing History of World War II as a Prophet Bibliography Index
All interested in contemporary French literature, World War II, Russian history, the Soviet Union, the Holocaust, postmodernism, contemporary philosophy of history, and historiographic metafiction.