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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Claire Etcherelli , John RoachPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.560kg ISBN: 9780415050937ISBN 10: 0415050936 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 21 November 1985 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThis novel is probably well known to many students and teachers of French literature and contemporary French studies. First published in 1967, it was awarded the prestigious Prix Femina and was praised by the Left for its exposure of racism and its critique of the alienation of capitalism, and reviled by the Right for being supposedly `anti-French' in its sympathy for Algerians and the terrorism of the FLN... The introduction to the text is very good indeed, clear and informative, logically arranged, moving from introducing the author to explaining the political context of the French-Algerian war, and then on to key aspects of the novel and its structure. It certainly enriched my reading of the novel. `Elise' is eminently suitable as a teaching tool for French studies as well as for literature courses and it is a welcome addition to this most useful series. Claire Duchen """This novel is probably well known to many students and teachers of French literature and contemporary French studies. First published in 1967, it was awarded the prestigious Prix Femina and was praised by the Left for its exposure of racism and its critique of the alienation of capitalism, and reviled by the Right for being supposedly `anti-French' in its sympathy for Algerians and the terrorism of the FLN... The introduction to the text is very good indeed, clear and informative, logically arranged, moving from introducing the author to explaining the political context of the French-Algerian war, and then on to key aspects of the novel and its structure. It certainly enriched my reading of the novel. `Elise' is eminently suitable as a teaching tool for French studies as well as for literature courses and it is a welcome addition to this most useful series."" Claire Duchen" A bleak, spare and curiously effective novel by a young Frenchwoman, set mainly in Paris during the Algerian war. Although this is the story of a timid love affair between Elise, a twenty-eight-year-old girl from a poverty-stricken province, and Arezki, a defiant Algerian worker, it is Elise's devotion to her brother Lucian which highlights the tragic ineptitude of contemporary youth unable to dominate . . . fate. Lucien, to Elise, is the aspiring one, my only bridge between the world of others and ours. The dutiful acolyte, Elise is summoned by her brother to Paris, after he had left his broken-hearted, teenaged wife and their child in the provinces. Lucien finds his sister a job in an automobile factory where the hours are long, pay meager, and the Algerians treated with contempt. While Lucien lacerates himself in ineffectual protest activity, Elise shyly accepts Arezki's love. At the close, Lucien, feverishly intent on attending a meaningless demonstration, dies ludicrously on a motor scooter ( he had thought Paris would thunder; Paris had only yawned ). Arezki, arrested, disappears, leaving Elise to question what was the power we lacked? Others must fight the battles, for those unfit for the power game have only their fifteen minutes of love and hope in the ashes. Terse, taut and relevant. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationClaire Etcherelli, John Roach Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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