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Writing Occupation
Among the Jewish writers who emigrated from Eastern Europe to France in the 1910s and 1920s, a number chose to switch from writing in their languages of origin to writing primarily in French, a language that represented both a literary center and the promises of French universalism. But under the Nazi occupation of France from 1940 to 1944, these Jewish émigré writers—among them Irène Némirovsky, Benjamin Fondane, Romain Gary, Jean Malaquais, and Elsa Triolet—continued to write in their adopted language, even as the Vichy regime and Nazi occupiers denied their French identity through xenophobic and antisemitic laws. In this book, Julia Elsky argues that these writers reexamined both ...
French XX Bibliography
Provides a listing available of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. This work is a reference source in the study of modern French literature and culture. The bibliography is divided into three major divisions: general studies, author subjects (arranged alphabetically), and cinema.
Reading Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Prose Poem
Through its readings of Charles Baudelaire's collection Le Spleen de Paris and other prose poems from the nineteenth century, this book considers the practice of reading prose poetry and how it might be different from reading poetry in verse. Among the numerous factors that helped shape the nascent modernity in Baudelaire's poetic prose are the poems' themes, forms, linguistic qualities, and modes. The contradictions identifiable at the level of prose poetry's discourse are similarly perceptible in other aspects of Baudelaire's poetic language, beyond the discursive: in the poems' formal considerations, which retain recognisable traces of verse despite their prose presentation; and, with res...
Aloysius Bertrand’s Gaspard de la Nuit Beyond the Prose Poem
Aloysius Bertrand’s Gaspard de la Nuit (1842) is a familiar title to music lovers, thanks to Ravel’s piano work of the same name, and to specialists of French literature, especially those interested in Baudelaire’s prose poetry. Yet until very recently the collection and its author have generally been viewed almost exclusively through the prism of their pioneering role in the development of the prose poem. By placing Bertrand back in his original context, adopting a comparative approach and engaging with recent critical work on the collection, Valentina Gosetti proposes a substantial reassessment of Gaspard de la Nuit and promotes a new understanding of Bertrand in his own terms, rather than those of his successors. Through his playful and ironic reinterpretation of Romantic clichés, and his overt defiance of the boundaries of poetry and beauty, Bertrand emerges as a fascinating figure in his own right. This book is one of the first full-length studies of Bertrand’s work, and it will be of particular interest to specialists of the nineteenth century and of provincial literature, and to students of nineteenth-century poetry or the fantastic.
L'Âne et la plume
Ce livre est consacré à l’une des œuvres majeures de Juan Ramón Jiménez, Platero y yo, qui, de façon surprenante, n’avait jamais fait l’objet d’une monographie. Dans ce volume est abordée la question de la réinvention des genres dans le cadre de la création poétique. Le poème en prose y est questionné et la définition proposée met en évidence un besoin de liberté qui le configure. Voilà pourquoi, selon l’auteur, il circule de façon fructueuse en même temps dans les eaux des trois genres. Cinq chapitres structurent le livre : I « Homme, animal et stratégies d’écriture », II « Espace et temps : chemin et voyage », III « Poétique de la couleur et de la lum...
The Unesco Courier
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The Novel of the Century
GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'Never mind those self-help manuals urging that some classic novel may change your life; in this sparkling study of the birth, growth and afterlife of Hugo's evergreen blockbuster, David Bellos argues that Les Misérables already has' Boyd Tonkin, Economist 'Any reader who hasn't yet embarked on Hugo's book might be converted to the idea by this one' Daniel Hahn, Spectator The extraordinary story of how a simple tale of love and revolution, the poor and the downtrodden - Victor Hugo's beloved classic Les Misérables - conquered the world. There has never been a book like it. It is the most widely read and frequently adapted story of all time, on stage and on f...
Nowhere is Perfect
"Utopian imaginings undoubtedly satisfy a desire for fantasy and escape. At the same time, however, they are generally anchored in the real world, whose shortcomings they criticise, implicity or explicity, and for which they purport to offer solutions. The creation of perfect imaginary worlds therefore serves as a means of acting on the imperfect present. This is a particular feature of French utopian writing, whose rich tradition continues to grow, inspiring authors from all parts of the Francophone world. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, the utopian - and dystopian - imaginings which constitute that tradition find expression through all genres and modes of creation. What they have in common, though, is a dissatisfaction with contemporary society and a determination to explore possibilities for a better life."--BOOK JACKET.
Russian Roulette
In this personal memoir from inside the mind of depression, the author addresses the use of medication, the misuse of drugs, and the unnatural fallout of common joy.
L'aventure millénaire des fusées
Après la poudre et les feux d'artifice, les Chinois ont inventé les fusées. D'une guerre à l'autre, leur usage est passé aux Mongols, aux Indiens, aux Arabes, et enfin aux Européens, qui les utilisent depuis le Moyen Âge. Dès la Renaissance, on rêve d'y installer des hommes, on trace les plans les plus fous - que reprendront les ingénieurs de notre siècle. Ce sont eux qui transformeront le rêve en réalité, grâce aux technologies les plus sophistiquées.
