Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. D.H. Lawrence: The Escaped Cock 2. D. H. Lawrence: "The Rocking-Horse Winner" 3. Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises: Writing the Pleasure Principle in a Postmodern Context 4. Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms: Pronominal Shifts and Metaphorical Slippage 5. Ernest Hemingway: The Garden of Eden 6. Albert Camus's Homonymous Veilings: "La Mer/Mere au Plus Pres" 7. Albert Camus: The Stranger 8. Toward Bliss: Roland Barthes and Alain Robbe-Grillet: Autobiography as Fiction 9. Alain Robbe-Grillet: Fantasy as Discourse of the Other Conclusion: Between the Folds of Metafiction and Mimesis (or) Writing the Reader with Postmodern Vestments Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Ben Stoltzfus is Professor Emeritus of French, Comparative Literature, and Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of The Eye of the Needle; Black Lazarus; Red White & Blue; Alain Robbe-Grillet and the New French Novel; Georges Chennevierre et L'Unamisme; Gide's Eagles; Gide and Hemingway: Rebels against God; Alain Robbe-Grillet: The Body of Text; Alain Robbe-Grillet: Life, Work and Criticism; and Postmodern Poetics: Nouveau Roman and Innovative Fiction.

Reviews

"This is an elegantly written and well argued analysis and interpretation of metaphorical and metonymic riddles and equations in a series of paradigmatic texts. Stoltzfus applies close reading techniques in a playful, i.e., both detached and attached rather than pedantic manner. At no point does the reader of this book feel lost in the complexity of the argument or crushed by the weight of theoretical jargon. The strength of this book is its unobtrusive yet seducing pedagogy that is firmly rooted in the author's erudition and teaching experience." - Raymond Gay-Crosier, University of Florida