Strange things on the edge of the city: Writing strategies in contemporary French surburban literature

This article examines how the study of topoi can be developed with regards to contemporary literature. Looking to French literature and its current interest in the everyday and our empirical places, the article discusses both how a literary topology can further an understanding of how and why these authors search for our everyday places, and how a contemporary topology necessarily needs to focus less on narrative itself and more on the articulation of place and experience. Acknowledging how the train becomes a recurrent topos in French literature, this article proposes a method that combines and rethinks a modern topology with an idea of place as a locus for an everyday social experience disturbing both empirical and literary convention.

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Strange things on the edge of the city: Writing strategies in contemporary French surburban literature

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