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The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-century French Literature
Studying works by authors including Gide, Breton, Aragon, Yourcenar, Duras, and Modiano, this volume re-thinks twentieth-century French literature and engages with the question of distinctions between the factual and the fictional.
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.
Consumer Chronicles
Since its 19th century beginnings, the consumer revolution, extending market forces into every area of social and private life, has been perceived as a challenge to core elements in French culture, such as traditional artisan crafts and small businesses serving local communities. Cultural historians and sociologists have charted the increasing commercialisation of everyday life over the 20th century, but few have paid systematic attention to the crucial testimony provided by the authors of narrative fiction. This book rectifies this omission by means of close readings of a series of novels, selected for their authentic portrayal of consumer behaviour, and analysed in relation to their social, cultural and historical contexts.
Surrealist Masculinities
"This fascinating and well-researched book explores a little-examined side of Surrealism with rigor and style. Lyford has delved into little-known archives, finding means to put pressure on the gendered relationships within the movement and, most important, on the Surrealists' conceptions and experiences of masculinity. Surrealist Masculinities will become a classic resource for all scholars of Surrealism and the highly gendered literary and artistic subcultures of early twentieth-century Europe and North America."--Amelia Jones, Professor and Pilkington Chair, University of Manchester
Memory and Politics
On the one hand, Louis Aragon (1897-1982) was iconoclastic: a founding member of the Surrealist movement, the son of a man who was masqueraded as his godfather for the first nineteen years of his life, and a bisexual who came out following the death of his wife. On the other hand, like so many other writers who as young men witnessed the slaughter of World War I at close quarters, Aragon was profoundly marked by the experience. Within his multifaceted oeuvre, the overarching theme of war is one permanent and unchangeable facet of this work--and while many books have been published on Aragon, none go beyond the figure of the Resistance poet to explore the subject of war throughout his career. Memory and Politics does just that, tracing two strands of Aragon's critique of war: an ideological strand which voices the policies of the Communist Party, and a personal strand which voices memory and loss.
Generation Stalin
Generation Stalin traces Joseph Stalin's rise as a dominant figure in French political culture from the 1930s through the 1950s. Andrew Sobanet brings to light the crucial role French writers played in building Stalin's cult of personality and in disseminating Stalinist propaganda in the international Communist sphere, including within the USSR. Based on a wide array of sources—literary, cinematic, historical, and archival—Generation Stalin situates in a broad cultural context the work of the most prominent intellectuals affiliated with the French Communist Party, including Goncourt winner Henri Barbusse, Nobel laureate Romain Rolland, renowned poet Paul Eluard, and canonical literary figure Louis Aragon. Generation Stalin arrives at a pivotal moment, with the Stalin cult and elements of Stalinist ideology resurgent in twenty-first-century Russia and authoritarianism on the rise around the world.
Mongo Beti
Créateur et militant, Mongo Beti est un personnage difficile à saisir. L’oeuvre de cet écrivain à la production multiforme est à la fois complexe et singulière. Devant les défis évidents qu’elle pose, la démarche de Mohamed Aït-Aarab est sans précédent. À la fois synchronique et diachronique, Mongo Beti, un écrivain engagé nous donne en effet à lire un essai exhaustif d’appréhension de l’oeuvre de Mongo Beti en tenant compte de sa complexité. Certes, l’ouvrage ne s’inscrit point dans la tradition de « l’homme et l’oeuvre », et ne cherche pas à respecter l’équilibre entre l’engagement que révèle l’écriture et celui de l’homme dans son quotidien...
