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 such as David Mitchell, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami and Jose Saramago. The book explores how these authors construct crucial relationships between sites of memory-the archive becomes a central trope here-and the self that has been subjected to various traumas, various losses. The archive-be it a bureaucratic office (Saramago),...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623569923
• ISBN13: 9781623569921
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"