Fiction in the Fifth: The Novel in the Fifth Republic

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Notes

Notes

1 In his Les Vingt Décisives, Jean-François Sirinelli maintains that “l’équipment électroménager devint … le symbole des Trente Glorieuses” (49).

2 Les Editions l’Olivier, a subsidy of Seuil, has created a distinguished reputation in large measure due to its publication of American fiction in translation.

3 An illuminating parallel to the more modest scope of today's fiction is the transition Foucault orchestrated from the Sartrean “universal intellectual,” to the “specific intellectual” who will concentrate his/her energies on clearly demarcated issues and speak as an individual rather than aspire to engage with every major question of the day in the name of humanity.