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This series of bibliographical references is one of the most important tools for research in modern and contemporary French literature. No other bibliography represents the scholarly activities and publications of these fields as completely.
Victims of the Book uncovers a long-neglected but once widespread subgenre: the fin-de-si?cle novel of formation in France. Novels about and geared toward adolescent male readers were imbued with a deep worry over young Frenchmen's masculinity, as evidenced by titles like Crise de jeunesse (Youth in Crisis, 1897), La Crise virile (Crisis of Virility, 1898), La Vie st?rile (A Sterile Life, 1892), and La Mortelle Impuissance (Deadly Impotence, 1903). In this book, Fran?ois Proulx examines a wide panorama of these novels, many of which have rarely been studied, as well as polemical essays, pedagogical articles, and medical treatises on the perceived threats posed by young Frenchmen's reading ha...
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Sheridan presents a literary biography of one of the most important writers of the 20th century--an intimate portrait of the reluctantly public man, whose work was deeply and inextricably entangled with his life. 35 halftones.
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Cette étude a pour objet de relever les traces plus ou moins cryptées qu'à laissées dans Les Thibault de Roger Martin du Gard son "étroite intimité avec Gide, avec sa personne, sa vie, son entourage". L'analyse suit l'ordre chronologique de la vie de Gide, de son enfance jusqu'à son engagement communiste dans les années trente (...). Elle s'appuie sur la correspondance des deux écrivains, sur leurs journaux et les témoignages de nombreux contemporains.