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Alison JamesBroad in scope, offers a transversal account of the documentary imagination in French literature, including a consideration of modernism (Gide, Yourcenar), the avant-garde (surrealism and dissident surrealists), postwar experimental literature (Perec, Duras), and works of autobiography and testimonyAddresses and historicizes the question of the borders and border crossings between factual and fictional narrativesRelates literature to developments and debates in the realm of photography and documentary film, as well as questions of historical narrative and testimonyISBN: 9780198859680Editor: Oxford University Press