Disruptive Technology: Social Media from Modiano to Zola and Proust
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2017
Journal / Book Title
French Politics, Culture & Society
Abstract
In this article, Patrick Modiano’s 2014 Nobel Prize acceptance speech serves as a springboard to consider the lieu commun that “disruptive technology” is killing both literature and the contemporary press. Modiano’s depiction of himself as part of an “intermediate generation,” trapped between the intense focus of great nineteenth-century novelists and the many distractions of contemporary writers, cleverly invoked millennial anxieties related to new technology in order to establish his own place within literary history.
DOI
10.3167/fpcs.2017.350107
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Emery, Elizabeth, "Disruptive Technology: Social Media from Modiano to Zola and Proust" (2017). Department of World Languages and Cultures Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 15.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/modernlang-literatures-facpubs/15
Published Citation
Emery, E. (2017). Disruptive Technology: Social Media from Modiano to Zola and Proust. French Politics, Culture & Society, 35(1), 76-89.