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By Motte Warren

French Fiction Today makes a speciality of the French novel within the twenty-first century, interpreting a chain of works which are exemplary of broader currents within the style. each one of those texts wagers insistently upon our willingness to invest approximately literature and its makes use of, in an age while the worth of literature is not any longer taken as axiomatic. every one of those texts can be regarded as a critical novel, a sort that calls upon us to interact with it in a serious demeanour, promising that that means will come up within the articulation of writing and examining. every one of those authors participates in a debate approximately what the unconventional is as a cultural shape in our present—and approximately what it could actually develop into, in a destiny that starts correct now.

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