Sophie's Choice - William Styron: William Styron [French]

By Patrick Badonnel

Sophie's Choice has met a tremendous success since publication in 1979 and has been translated in many languages, including Japanese and Russian; it has been made into a movie by Alan Pakula, with Meryl Streep in the unforgettable leading role, and even gave birth to an opera. As usual William Styron gets down to brass tacks with one of the most awe-inspiring themes of the twentieth century the final solution and the horror of the death-camps. In this bilingual study the emphasis is laid on the complexity of the narrative technique, the link between sexuality and violence, and the entanglement of historical, religious, philosophical and psychoanalytical references that make up the fabric of personal drama and human tragedy that Sophie's Choice represents.

Patrick BADONNEL is a full professor of American literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris III) and former chair of the Agr gation. He is the author of several books on American contemporary writers (with C. Maisonnat) and has already published a book and several papers on William Styron's work. Also interested in the contemporary short story he is the author (with C. Maisonnat) of La Nouvelle Anglo-saxonne. Initiation une lecture psychanalytique (Hachette Sup rieur, 1998).

Cet ouvrage est le fruit de la collaboration entre les ditions Armand Colin et le Centre National d'Enseignement Distance, tablissement public d'enseignement qui dispense des formations de tous niveaux plus de 350 000 inscrits r partis dans le monde entier.

Cette contribution scientifique d'enseignants chercheurs de l'Universit fran aise s'int gre dans les pr parations assur es par le CNED aux CAPES et aux agr gations d'anglais qui comprennent aussi des conseils m thodologiques et des entra nements aux preuves des concours avec correction personnalis e.

General context and historical background. Narrative strategies at work in Sophie's Choice. The aesthetics of perversion and the European axis of evil in Sophie's Choice. Sexuality, textuality and liquidity. La confrontation pathologique des d sirs. Totalitarisme et schizophr nie. Th ologie et t l ologie dans Sophie's Choice. thique et esth tique du texte.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2200266154
• ISBN13: 9782200266158
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Armand Colin
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.3"