N2 - Micro-(h)istorical narratives by Claude Duneton and Jean Echenoz – The purpose of this article is a comparative study of two recent French novels, Le Monument. Roman vrai by Claude Duneton (2004) and 1914 by Jean Echenoz (2012), which, in spite of formal and ideological differences, approach the theme of the Great War in a way similar to micro-historical frameworks. Like historians representing this field of historiography, both writers depict the four years of the First World War by focusing on a small community and a geographical space limited to a small location on the home-front. Referring to the distinction between roman de l’historien (the historian’s novel) and roman du témoin (the witness’s novel) proposed by Emmanuel Bouju, the author of the article analyses the strategies used by the novelists to create an indirect witness’s point-of-view, juxtaposed with the perspective of the contemporary recipient of the events that happened a hundred years ago. L1 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/107708/PDF-MASTER/KN%203-18%203-SADKOWSKI.pdf L2 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/107708 PY - 2018 IS - No 3 KW - Great War KW - microhistory KW - historian’s novel KW - witness’s novel KW - micro-(h)istorical narration KW - Duneton KW - Echenoz A1 - Sadkowski, Piotr PB - Wydział I Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych PAN i Uniwersytet Warszawski DA - 2018.06.15 T1 - Les narrations micro-(h)istoriques de Claude Dunetonet de Jean Echenoz UR - http://www.journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/107708 T2 - Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny