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From the ludic, if entirely serious, assassinations of political art in his first prize-winning novel C’est toujours les autres qui meurent, to the devastating unreality of massacre and extermination, Vilar’s work constitutes a distinctive and important commentary on the murderous twentieth century. 978-1-78188-391-4.
- Margaret Atack
- NED-New Edition
Vilar deploys the unsettling tropes of trompe l'œil, repetition, reproduction and rehearsal, together with a knowing, self-reflexive textuality, to produce a subversive and sinister theatricality. In this first full-length study of his work, Margaret Atack surveys not only Vilar's novels but also his shorter fiction, journalism, photobooks ...
Apr 7, 2022 · In Jean-François Vilar: Theatres of Crime, Margaret Atack undertakes an exploration of Vilar’s crime novels, short stories, and non-fictional writings on cities with a view towards ‘elucidat [ing] t...
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Nov 15, 2021 · Jean-François Vilar: Theatres of Crime. Based on: Jean-François Vilar: Theatres of Crime. By Atack Margaret. (Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies.) Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2020. Pp. xii+ 152. £75.00 (hbk), £9.99 (pbk).
postwar American film noir and its French Nouvelle Vague transmutations, Vilar traversed subterranean cultural realms and summoned their shadows to conjure surreal criminal visions. Vilar’s novels meander through suppressed histories of political violence, state repression, and
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