Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-337) and indexes.

Introduction / Lorna Milne and Mary Orr -- A void to avoid a void / Ian Higgins -- Apollinaire's voluptuous calvary: lexical fields, generic conventions and narrative space in Les Onze mille verges / Peter Read -- C�eline, invective and the dismantling of narrative: Casse-pipe / Michael Tilby -- Mounier multivocalist: towards a multiple articulation of the French experience of Black Africa / Michael Kelly -- The rhetoric of the border in Julien Gracq's Le Rivage des Syrtes / Robin MacKenzie -- The M�emoires of Doctor Lamballe and Mister Swing Troubadour: echoes of Vidocq and Robert Louis Stevenson in Patrick Modiano's La Ronde de nuit / Alan Morris -- L'Enfance perturbe et fertilise le r�ecit dans la litt�erature fran�caise aise du vingti�eme si�ecle: l'exemple de Chamoiseau / Anne Chevalier -- "On transporte avec soi une esap�ece de gouffre": textual spaces and literary heritage in Michel Houellebecq's Po�esies / David Evans -- Tournier and his intellectual milieu: narratives of modernity / Mairi Maclean -- Footprint in the sand: Tournier's re-writing of Paul Val�ery in Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique / Paul Gifford -- "Terre d'asile, terre d'accueil": explorations of the Robinsonade in Pierre Mertens's Terre d'asile / Susan Bainbrigge -- The metamorphoses of forms in Tournier's Roi des Aulnes and Pierrette Fleutiaux's M�etamorphoses de la reine / Mary Orr -- Deep space: a sojourn in the salt mines with Michel Tournier and Marie Nimier / Lorna Milne -- Les nuits de Sylvie Germain et le pari de Pascal / Alain Goulet -- Sylvie Germain: fable, cri, echolalia / Toby Garfitt -- Is France post post-war? judging the Nazi past in recent novels by Maud Tabachnik, Michel Rio and Sylvie Germain / Margaret-Anne Hutton -- David Gascoigne: publications.

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