Melancholy and the Archive: Trauma, History and Memory in the Contemporary Novel

by Jonathan Boulter

Book Overview

Melancholy and the Archive examines how trauma, history and memory are represented in key works of major contemporary writers (David Mitchell, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami, Jose Saramago). The book explores how these authors construct crucial relationships between sites of memoryG the archive becomes a central trope hereG and the self that has been subjected to various traumas, various losses. The archiveG be it a bureaucratic office (Saramago),...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441124128
• ISBN13: 9781441124128
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"