Claude Arnaud’s urban fauna: a literary topography of 1970s Parisian counterculture Cover Image

Miejska fauna Claude’a Arnauda. O kontrkulturowej topografii literackiej Paryża lat 70. XX wieku
Claude Arnaud’s urban fauna: a literary topography of 1970s Parisian counterculture

Author(s): Clara Zgoła
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Summary/Abstract: In this article explores the literary topography of the counterculture of Paris in the 1970s as depicted by the French novelist and biographer Claude Arnaud. Zgoła begins by examining suburban-marginal auto/bio/geo/graphy and the question of “neutral zones,” then turns to topographies of post-revolutionary Paris and its relationships to the Situationists’ urban practices and the narrator’s postmodern identity. Concepts of the autobiographical place, the autobiotext and the narrative of space allow Zgoła to identify alternative ways of using the city and to describe the celebratory and carnivalesque dimensions of experiences related to the specificities of such alternative modes.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 168-182
  • Page Count: 15