Jewish identity in contemporary francophone fiction Lazarus, Joyce Block creator author text xxu 1999 monographic eng

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141 pages "Strangers and Sojourners demonstrates that there is a distinctive French Jewish literature today, characterized not by its authors' common nationality, but by their identification with a Jewish collectivity and with French language and culture. The six authors in this study, Memmi, Wiesel, Schwarz-Bart, Perec, Modiano, and Jacques, all writing after Auschwitz, engage in a quest for a modern Jewish consciousness.Torn between the opposing pulls of Judaism and French cultural values, they exhibit their tension and ambivalent feelings through the themes and structure of their fiction, and in their ambiguous relationship with the French language."--BOOK JACKET. Joyce Block Lazarus French fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Jews -- France -- Intellectual life Jewish fiction -- History and criticism Judaism and literature -- France Jews in literature History and criticism French fiction 843.9140989 LAZ 9780820440200 0820440205 InACL 261007 20261007140918.0 220936 eng