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Melancholy and the Archive examines how trauma, history and memory are represented in key works of major contemporary writers such as David Mitchell, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami and Jose Saramago. The book explores how these authors construct crucial relationships between sites of memory-the archive becomes a central trope here-and the self that has been subjected to various traumas, various losses. The archive-be it a bureaucratic office (Saramago), an underground bunker (Auster), a geographical space or landscape (Mitchell) or even a hole (Murakami)-becomes the means by which the self attempts to preserve and conserve his or her sense of history even as the economy of trauma threatens to erase the grounds of such preservation: as the subject or self is threatened so the archive becomes a festishized site wherein history is housed, accommodated, created, even fabricated. The archive, in Freudian terms, becomes a space of melancholy precisely as the subject preserves not only a personal history or a culture's history, but also the history of the traumas that necessitates the creation of the archive as such.

Fiction --- Melancholy in literature --- Memory in literature --- Memory as a theme in literature --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- History and criticism --- Philosophy --- Psychic trauma in literature --- History in literature --- Bereavement in literature --- Fiction - 20th century̨ - History and criticism --- Fiction - 21st century - History and criticism

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Melancholy and the Archive examines how trauma, history and memory are represented in key works of major contemporary writers (David Mitchell, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami, Jose Saramago). The book explores how these authors construct crucial relationships between sites of memory the archive becomes a central trope here and the self that has been subjected to various traumas, various losses. The archive be it a bureaucratic office (Saramago), an underground bunker (Auster), a geographical space or landscape (Mitchell) or even a hole (Murakami) becomes the means by which the self attempts to pr

Melancholy in literature. --- Memory in literature. --- Memory as a theme in literature --- Fiction --- History and criticism. --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Philosophy --- Auster, Paul, --- Saramago, José --- Mitchell, David --- Murakami, Haruki, --- Cunshang, Chunshu, --- Murakami, Kharuki, --- Мураками, Харуки, --- מורקמי, הרוקי, --- 村上春樹 --- Auster, Paul --- אוסטר, פול, --- 奥斯特, --- Benjamin, Paul, --- Mitchell, David Stephen --- Salamage, Ruoze --- Saramago, Zhoze --- Сарамаго, Жозе --- סאראמאגו, ז׳וזה --- סאראמאגו, ז׳וזה. טבעון, מרים --- Sousa Saramago, José de --- De Sousa Saramago, José --- ジョゼ・サラマーゴ --- Criticism and interpretation.

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