The Possibility of a 'Dead Europe': Tsiolkas, Houellebecq and European Mythologies

Manganas, N

The Possibility of a 'Dead Europe': Tsiolkas, Houellebecq and European Mythologies

Manganas, N

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Publisher:: UTS
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Portal, 2007, 4 (2), pp. 1 - 17
Issue Date:: 2007-01

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dc.contributor.author	Manganas, N https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6121-2531	en_US
dc.date.issued	2007-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Portal, 2007, 4 (2), pp. 1 - 17	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1449-2490	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/1522
dc.description.abstract	This article posits that two constituent mythologies sustain and drive the EU integration process. The first is the tension between the twin narratives of perpetual peace and perpetual suffering. The second fundamental mythology of the EU project is the tension between the narratives of Europe as on the one hand authentic and as cosmopolitan on the other. Both of these constituent mythologies are essential in forming what is emerging as a pan-European, Europtimist raison detre. This article posits that two recent novels, the Australian Christos Tsiolkass Dead Europe (2005) and the French Michel Houellebecqs The Possibility of an Island (2006) subvert these two mythologies and in the process undermine the legitimacy of recent works of Europtomist scholarship.	en_US
dc.publisher	UTS	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Portal	en_US
dc.title	The Possibility of a 'Dead Europe': Tsiolkas, Houellebecq and European Mythologies	en_US
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Abstract:

This article posits that two constituent mythologies sustain and drive the EU integration process. The first is the tension between the twin narratives of perpetual peace and perpetual suffering. The second fundamental mythology of the EU project is the tension between the narratives of Europe as on the one hand authentic and as cosmopolitan on the other. Both of these constituent mythologies are essential in forming what is emerging as a pan-European, Europtimist raison detre. This article posits that two recent novels, the Australian Christos Tsiolkass Dead Europe (2005) and the French Michel Houellebecqs The Possibility of an Island (2006) subvert these two mythologies and in the process undermine the legitimacy of recent works of Europtomist scholarship.

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