Revolution and Terror in contemporary French fiction: exploring an ideological legacy. Ghent University
This project sets out to understand the complex intertwining of literature, ideology and violence in
the novels of four prize-winning French authors. Patrick Deville, Pierre Michon, Olivier Rolin and
Antoine Volodine are often bracketed together as a generation of writers that have witnessed, and
some participated in, the ‘evolutionary years’that followed the 1968 upheaval.
The proposed project ...