Instructions for Use of Novels
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"Instructions for Using Novel" is a history of the development of French novels in the 20th century written by the famous contemporary French literary critic Henri Godard. It was first published in 2006. French novels experienced a very special process of change in the 20th century. Prior to this, novels tended to narrate in chronological order, arrange plots according to the law of cause and effect, and strive to create the illusion that literature imitates reality. These principles formed the basis of the most important European novels in the 19th century. Beginning in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some novelists-such as Woolf and Joyce-began to challenge this tradition of novel writing. In France, this challenge is relevant to several novelists of every generation during the 20th century. When we look back at this period of history, we will find that by exploring the opposite of mimetic fiction, these novelists also established a real trend. This trend has its own development logic, development process and development progress, among which the 1920s and 1950s were its two development acceleration periods. Although the works in this trend have different characteristics, they also show an important commonality. Henri Godard's "Instructions for Using Novel" focuses on such an innovative critical trend. This book has a total of fourteen chapters. It introduces French novelists who "anti-imitation" through various forms of innovation and their representative works in chronological order. It clearly presents an anti-traditional path that French novels took in the first seventy-five years of the twentieth century, and analyzes the characteristics of each development stage of this path. Through this analysis, Henri Godard reveals the many possibilities of novel creation.
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