{"product_id":"the-french-fictional-journal-9781487585228","title":"The French Fictional Journal","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike other forms of fictional first-person narrative such as the memoir or epistolary novel, the French fictional journal or diary-novel has received inadequate critical attention. This is the first full-length analysis devoted to its particular features.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eValerie Raoul bases her study on the premise that the interest of the fictional journal lies in its subjugation of one set of conventions, those of the diary, to another set, those of the novel, and the interference of each of those ‘codes’ in the function of the other. In this context she discusses more than fifty novels or short stories wholly or partly in diary form and written in France between 1800 and the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first part of the book she deals with the fictivity of the diary-novel. Philippe Lejeune’s work on the functioning of autobiography serves as a point of comparison to elucidate the distinctive reading pact involved in this aspect of first-person fiction. The second part anal\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359455674711,"sku":"9781487585228","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487585228.jpg?v=1754124700","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-french-fictional-journal-9781487585228","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}