A new pact around historical novel and biographical fiction: Laurent Binet’s HHhH

Authors

  • Felipe Charbel

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14393/ArtC-V19n35-2017-2-03

Abstract

This essay examines Laurent Binet’s novel HH hH (2009). One argues that the novel’s narrator presents a set of clausesas conditions for reconstructing the historical past: such reconstruction must be scrupulous, i.e.true to what actually happened, and at the same time pictorially rich, full of life. One also argues that fictional staging of narrator’s dilemmas regarding the construction of the story allows the reader to engage in a productive internal dialogue. This latter makes it possible for the reader to consider the terms of the radical proposal fora new pact around historical novel and biographical fiction as figured in the novel.

keywords: historical fiction; biographical fiction; French literature.

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Author Biography

Felipe Charbel

Doutor em História Social da Cultura pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Professor do Instituto de História e do Programa de Pós-graduação em História da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Pesquisador do CNPq. Coorganizador do livro As formas do romance: estudos sobre a historicidade da literatura. Rio de Janeiro: Ponteio, 2016.

Published

2017-12-20

How to Cite

Charbel, F. (2017). A new pact around historical novel and biographical fiction: Laurent Binet’s HHhH. ArtCultura, 19(35). https://doi.org/10.14393/ArtC-V19n35-2017-2-03

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Dossiê História & Literatura