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The study links narrative strategies to questions of memory, truth, shame, influence, origin, semiotics, and the representation of life and death. Through case-focused chapter analyses and a concluding synthesis, the book builds an interpretation of how narration expresses desire and generates narrative anxiety in modern literary writing.","TELLING ANXIETY: ANXIOUS NARRATION IN THE WORK OF MARGUERITE DURAS , ANNIE ERN AUX, NATHALIE SARRAU TE , AND ANNE HÉ BERT  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \nJENNIFER WILLGING  \nTelling Anxiety  \nAnxious Narration in the Work of Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, Nathalie Sarraute, and Anne Hébert  \nUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London  \n[www.utppublishing.com](www.utppublishing.com)[ ](www.utppublishing.com)© University of Toronto Press Incorporated 2007  \nToronto Buffalo London  \nPrinted in Canada  \nISBN 978-0-8020-9276-2  \nPrinted on acid-free paper  \nLibrary and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication  \nWillging, Jennifer  \nTelling anxiety : anxious narration in the work of Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, Nathalie Sarraute, and Anne Hébert / Jennifer Willging.  \n(University of Toronto romance series)  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 978-0-8020-9276-2  \n1. Duras, Marguerite – Criticism and interpretation. 2. Ernaux, Annie, 1940– – Criticism and interpretation. 3. Sarraute, Nathalie – Criticism and interpretation. 4. Hébert, Anne, 1916–2000 – Criticism and interpretation.  \n5. Narration (Rhetoric)– History – 20th century. 6. Anxiety in literature.  \nI. Title. II. Series.  \nPQ673.W54 2007 843.00923 C2007-900814-3  \nUniversity of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.  \nContents  \nAcknowledgments vii  \nIntroduction: Narrative Anxiety, Narrative Desire 3  \nPART ONE: NARRATING THE SELF, NARRATING THE OTHER  \n1 ‘Truth’ in Memory and Narrative: Marguerite Duras’s ‘Monsieur X.  \ndit ici Pierre Rabier’ 27  \n2 Shame in Memory and Narrative: Annie Ernaux’s La honte 73  \nPART TWO: NARRATING LIFE, NARRATING DEATH  \n3 The Anxiety of Influence and the Urge to Originate:  \nNathalie Sarraute’s Entre la vie et la mort 117  \n4 The Sound of the Semiotic: Anne Hébert’s Les fous de Bassan 154  \nConclusion 188  \nNotes 197  \nBibliography 239  \nIndex 251  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \nAcknowledgments  \nI wish to thank the College of Humanities and the Department of French and Italian at the Ohio State University for their generous support of my research. They have provided me with the leaves from teaching and the funding necessary to complete this book. I thank Diane Birckbichler and Debra Moddelmog in particular for going above and beyond their duties to help me bring this project to fruition. I am also indebted to Judith Mayne, who has been a wise and inspirational mentor to me over the past six years. Her multiple readings of the manuscript throughout its evolution have unquestionably strengthened the final product (although I take exclusive responsibility for its shortcomings) . Mary Jean Green’s excellent suggestions for revision, and her enthusiasm, have also been of invaluable aid to me. I thank Karlis Racevskis and Eugene Holland for their help with various sections of the manuscript, as well as for their warm collegiality. Two crucial mentors and readers of the earliest versions of the manuscript were Mireille Rosello and Gerald Mead. I am grateful to them for their expertise, kindness, and steadfast encouragement.  \nAt the University of Toronto Press, several anonymous readers contributed to the improvement of the manuscript, and I thank them, however impersonally. Matthew Kudelka has been a talented and meticulous copyeditor, leaving not a single American spelling or misused relative pronoun unaltered. Most importantly, I extend my sincere appreciation to Jill McConkey, my editor. Her guidance, praise, and constant good cheer have brightened my days throughout this process.  \nOn a more personal note, I owe a debt of gratitude to my father, Ronald Willging, for his scrupulous and unpaid editing, and to both him and my mother, Joy Willging, for their confidence in me and for their love. I am very lucky to be their daughter. 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