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Article: LE PARCOURS ZOLIEN DE JEAN ECHENOZ.

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May 1, 1998
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L'oeuvre du romancier francais contemporain Jean Echenoz est retorse a l'analyse. Ainsi que Dominique Jullien le souligne: "Any attempt to summarize the novels would be hopeless: they offer a confusing network of murders, blackmail, and manhunt, among which the reader easily becomes lost" (338). De meme pour Claude Murcia, le "caractere volontiers invraisemblable" de l'histoire, "sa complication excessive font qu'elle est la premiere chose qu'on oublie, qu'elle se detruit elle-meme, du moins qu'elle se conteste" (57). Ce que la critique s'accorde a reconnaitre c'est que les oeuvres d'Echenoz, ancrees dans une esthetique postmoderne, exhibent une "intertextualite ... 







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