Pictures into Words – Images in Contemporary French Fiction Blatt Hardback

Pictures Into WordsImages in Contemporary French Fiction\nAuthor(s): Ari J. Blatt\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803238053, 978-0803238053\nSynopsis\nThe explosive proliferation of pictures in advertising and pop culture, mass media, and cyberspace following World War II, along with the profusion of critical thinking that tries to make sense of it, has had wide-ranging implications for cultural production as such. Pictures into Words explores how this proliferation of graphic images has profoundly affected narrative writing in France, especially, as Ari J. Blatt argues, the structure, content, and symbolic logic of contemporary French fiction. By examining a specific corpus of narratives by authorsClaude Simon, Georges Perec, Pierre Michon, and Tanguy Vielbooks that originate amid, conjure up, and indeed are essentially about picturesBlatt addresses the most salient questions pertaining to.