| Description |
xiii, 407 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Proust -- Remembrance of Marcel Proust -- Swann's way -- Proust as a moralist -- Jean Santeuil -- Proust on art and literature -- Proust and gide displayed -- Proust's earliest readers -- Gide -- Andre Gide: the Journals I -- Andre Gide: the Journals II -- Corydon -- Madeleine -- So be it -- Was gide a collaborationist? -- Gide's fictional technique -- The counterfeiters and point counter point -- Theseus -- How Gide translated Hamlet -- Gide's Hamlet -- Gide at the comedie-Francaise -- Imaginary interview with Andre Gide -- Camus -- Albert Camus: novelist, dramatist, philosopher of the absurd -- The stranger -- The plague -- Nobel prize, 1957 -- Paris without Camus -- Subject to history -- Albert Camus, Militant -- Focal Centers -- The N. R. F. -- Shakespeare and company -- The thirties -- Complete man of letters / Larbaud -- Bullfighter in the academy / Montherlant -- Men of good will / Romains -- A letter from Jallez to Jerphanion / Romains -- Please pass the ill will / Romains-- The world of the thibaults / Martin du Gard -- Jean Barois / Martin du Gard -- Man's hope / Malraux -- Harvest / Giono -- Death on the installment plan / Celine -- Cemeteries in moonlight / Bernanos -- Earthly paradise / Colette -- War and occupation -- French books, summer 1939 -- French literature and the war -- American books and French readers -- The expatriate's Paris -- Writers at midnight -- A letter from Paris, August 1945 -- Vercors -- The new writers -- The new French writers -- Sattre: roads to freedom -- Sattre resartus -- The miraculous barber / Ayme -- The company of men / Gary -- The castle of Argol / Gracq -- The voyeur / Robbe-Grillet -- A change of heart / Butor -- Zazie / Queneau -- Tropisms / Sarraute -- Poetry -- From dada to surrealism -- French poetry in the thirties -- Myth-making / Jean Cocteau -- Dialogues / Paul Valery -- The art of poetry / Paul Valery -- Barbarian in Asia / Henri Michaux -- Space Witbin / Paul Valery -- Theater -- Jouvet's school for wives -- The renaud-Barrault Company -- The style of France's theatre national populaire -- The family cell / Sartre. |
| Subject |
French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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French literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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