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photo-roman

photography and literature
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  • early printing of Voltaire's Candide
    French literature
    / Prose fiction

    …writing joined to produce the photo-roman, concerned with exploring the relationship between the image, especially images of the body, and the narrative work that goes into its construction and interpretation. Good examples of the photo-roman are Barthes’s La Chambre Claire (1980; Camera Lucida) and Hervé Guibert’s Vice (1991). Gay writing,…

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    …writing joined to produce the photo-roman, concerned with exploring the relationship between the image, especially images of the body, and the narrative work that goes into its construction and interpretation. Good examples of the photo-roman are Barthes’s La Chambre Claire (1980; Camera Lucida) and Hervé Guibert’s Vice (1991). Gay writing,…

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