Download e-book for kindle: Sophie's Choice : William Styron (Coédition CNED/ARMAND by Patrick Badonnel

Sophie's Choice has met an immense good fortune in view that book in 1979 and has been translated in lots of languages, together with jap and Russian; it's been made right into a motion picture via Alan Pakula, with Meryl Streep within the unforgettable prime function, or even gave beginning to an opera. As ordinary William Styron will get right down to brass tacks with the most awe-inspiring issues of the 20th century : the ultimate resolution and the horror of the death-camps. during this bilingual learn the emphasis is laid at the complexity of the narrative procedure, the hyperlink among sexuality and violence, and the entanglement of old, non secular, philosophical and psychoanalytical references that make up the cloth of non-public drama and human tragedy that Sophie's Choice represents.

Patrick BADONNEL is an entire professor of yankee literature on the Sorbonne Nouvelle college (Paris III) and previous chair of the Agrégation. he's the writer of numerous books on American modern writers (with C. Maisonnat) and has already released a booklet and a number of other papers on William Styron's paintings. additionally attracted to the modern brief tale he's the writer (with C. Maisonnat) of l. a. Nouvelle Anglo-saxonne. Initiation à une lecture psychanalytique (Hachette Supérieur, 1998).

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General context and ancient historical past. Narrative techniques at paintings in Sophie's selection. The aesthetics of perversion and the eu axis of evil in Sophie's selection. Sexuality, textuality and liquidity. los angeles disagreement pathologique des désirs. Totalitarisme et schizophrénie. Théologie et téléologie dans Sophie's selection. Éthique et esthétique du texte.