Time on the Brink of Impasse: Historicity, Postmodernity, and the French Seventies

Time on the Brink of Impasse explores a pivotal decade in French cultural history through the lenses of literature, film, and critical theory. The 1970s in France are often dismissed as a period of blocked historical imagination. This book argues that the period’s literature and cinema reflect not disorientation or despair but a decade animated by artistic responses to new experiences of time.

Returning to influential theorists of postmodernity, including Fredric Jameson, Jean-François Lyota...