Author: Gladys Rosaleen Turquet-MilnesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Some Modern French Writers
Author: Gladys Rosaleen Turquet-MilnesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Word From Paris
Author: John SturrockPublisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859841631
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In this accessible guide to the literature and thought of 20th century France, Sturrock clarifies the various intellectual movements that have marked the recent history of French writing, including Existentialism, Structuralism and the OuLiPo.
History of Violence
Author: Édouard LouisPublisher:
ISBN: 0374170592
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
"Originally published in French in 2016 by Seuil, France, as Historie de la violence"--Title page verso.
The Character of Rain
Author: Amelie NothombPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429978961
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children, whether Japanese or not, are gods, each one an okosama, or "lord child." On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of the human race. In Amelie Nothomb's new novel, The Character of Rain, we learn that divinity is a difficult thing from which to recover, particularly if, like the child in this story, you have spent the first tow and a half years of life in a nearly vegetative state. "I remember everything that happened to me after the age of two and one-half," the narrator tells us. She means this literally. Once jolted out of her plant-like , tube-like trance (to the ecstatic relief of her concerned parents), the child bursts into existence, absorbing everything that Japan, where her father works as a diplomat, has to offer. Life is an unfolding pageant of delight and danger, a ceaseless exploration of pleasure and the limits of power. Most wondrous of all is the discovery of water: oceans, seas, pools, puddles, streams, ponds, and, perhaps most of all, rain-one meaning of the Japanese character for her name. Hers is an amphibious life. The Character of Rain evokes the hilarity, terror, and sanctity of childhood. As she did in the award-winning, international bestesller Fear and Trembling, Nothomb grounds the novel in the outlines of her experiences in Japan, but the self-portrait that emerges from these pages is hauntingly universal. Amelie Nothomb's novels are unforgettable immersion experiences, leaving you both holding your breath with admiration, your lungs aching, and longing for more.
A History of Modern French Literature
Author: Christopher PrendergastPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400885043
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 737
Book Description
An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, from Rabelais and Marguerite de Navarre to Samuel Beckett and Assia Djebar. Christopher Prendergast, one of today's most distinguished authorities on French literature, has gathered a transatlantic group of more than thirty leading scholars who provide original essays on carefully selected writers, works, and topics that open a window onto key chapters of French literary history. The book begins in the sixteenth century with the formation of a modern national literary consciousness, and ends in the late twentieth century with the idea of the "national" coming increasingly into question as inherited meanings of "French" and "Frenchness" expand beyond the geographical limits of mainland France. Provides an exciting new account of French literary history from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century Features more than thirty original essays on key writers, works, and topics, written by a distinguished transatlantic group of scholars Includes an introduction and index The contributors include Etienne Beaulieu, Christopher Braider, Peter Brooks, Mary Ann Caws, David Coward, Nicholas Cronk, Edwin M. Duval, Mary Gallagher, Raymond Geuss, Timothy Hampton, Nicholas Harrison, Katherine Ibbett, Michael Lucey, Susan Maslan, Eric Méchoulan, Hassan Melehy, Larry F. Norman, Nicholas Paige, Roger Pearson, Christopher Prendergast, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Timothy J. Reiss, Sarah Rocheville, Pierre Saint-Amand, Clive Scott, Catriona Seth, Judith Sribnai, Joanna Stalnaker, Aleksandar Stević, Kate E. Tunstall, Steven Ungar, and Wes Williams.
From Proust to Camus
Author: André MauroisPublisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
This book is the ideal introduction to modern French literature.
Paths to Contemporary French Literature
Author: John TaylorPublisher:
ISBN: 9780765892164
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Select Tales by Modern French Writers
Author: Gustave MassonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A New History of French Literature
Author: Denis HollierPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674615663
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
An introduction to the history of French literature, covering from 842 to 1990.
Modern French Literature
Author: Benjamin Willis WellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description