Places of Emptiness in the Novel The Man Who Sleeps by Georges Perec and Its Film Adaptation Cover Image

Места на празнота в романа Спящият човек на Жорж Перек и неговата екранизация
Places of Emptiness in the Novel The Man Who Sleeps by Georges Perec and Its Film Adaptation

Author(s): Rennie Yotova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Novel, French Literature, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: New Novel; New Wave; rhetorical places; emptiness; existential crisis

Summary/Abstract: This text examines George Perec's novel The Man Who Sleeps and its adaptation through a young man's existential crisis in search of the meaning of his existence. The disintegrated time and space introduce the reader to the labyrinth of wandering consciousness through the “rhetorical places”, the delight of emptiness, on the border between dream and reality. The work is close to the experiment of the literary movement “New Novel”, approaching in the film the “camera-pen” embodied in the New Wave of French cinema.

  • Issue Year: 8/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 118-127
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Bulgarian