TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boulter,Jonathan
TI  - Melancholy and the archive: trauma, history and memory in the contemporary novel 
T2  - Continuum literary studies series
SN  - 9781441152169
AV  - PN56.M4 B68 2011eb
U1  - 809.3/04 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Continuum
KW  - Melancholy in literature
KW  - Memory in literature
KW  - Fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Mélancolie dans la littérature
KW  - Mémoire dans la littérature
KW  - Roman
KW  - 21e siècle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - History of Western philosophy
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Literary studies: from c 1900
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-203) and index; Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Archiving Trauma: Paul Auster; Chapter 2. Burying History: Haruki Murakami; Chapter 3. Humanizing History: David Mitchell; Chapter 4. Archiving Melancholy: José Saramago; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
N2  - 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 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), an underground bunker (Auster), a geographical space or landscape (Mitchell) or even a hole (Murakami) becomes the means by which the self attempts to pr
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