Rangarajan (French, U. of Alaska) presents 8 essays on the four novels of French New Novelist, Michel Butor. The novels were written in the mid 20th century and are in many regards
experimental, including second-person narrativization and other complexities. Rangarajan considers how Butor plays with our sense of narrative beginnings, but also how the relationship between
narratee and narrator drive the story, discourse genres, collection and recollection, the relationship between story and plot, the dialectic between the flaneur and the city, and racism. This
would be a good text for anyone studying existential French writers or Michel Butor himself. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
