Telling Anxiety : Anxious Narration in the Work of Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, Nathalie Sarraute, and Anne Herbert.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Narrative Anxiety, Narrative Desire -- PART ONE: NARRATING THE SELF, NARRATING THE OTHER -- 1 'Truth' in Memory and Narrative: Marguerite Duras's 'Monsieur X. dit ici Pierre Rabier' -- 2 Shame in Memory and Narrative: Annie Ernaux's La honte -- PART TWO: NARRATING LIFE, NARRATING DEATH -- 3 The Anxiety of Influence and the Urge to Originate: Nathalie Sarraute's Entre la vie et la mort -- 4 The Sound of the Semiotic: Anne Hébert's Les fous de Bassan -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

In Telling Anxiety, Jennifer Willging examines manifestations of such anxieties in the selected narratives of four women writing in French.

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