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Everyday Ghosts: La Curée in the Shadow of the Commune
Ist Teil von
Romanic review, 2011-05, Vol.102 (3-4), p.321-347
Ort / Verlag
Durham: Duke University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
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Quelle
ProQuest_Literature Online_英美文学在线
Beschreibungen/Notizen
"4 Critics have taken seriously Zola's wish to be viewed as a historian of the Second Empire, particularly with regard to that censored novel that detailed the Haussmannian projects for "le Nouveau Paris" and the speculation accompanying them.5 Scholars have alternatively taken the novel for history and reflected on its failed historicity, but they have almost always done so with regard to the period in which it is set, spanning 1862-1864 with flashbacks to 1852.6 In this essay, I put aside the novel's self-declared project of raising the ghosts of the Second Empire in order to consider how La Curée consorts with phantoms in its own immediate present. The porous frontiers between the novel and the news exacerbate the crisis within the "word-city" that is the daily paper such that in the very real city that was Paris, still somehow under siege, the catastrophe keeps coming back.99 To relay the signals of haunting is not necessarily to answer ghosts but it is to give sense to their presence.