Author: Eugène RambertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Études Littéraires
Author: Eugène RambertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Francophone Literatures
Author: M. H. OffordPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415198394
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Unique in its analysis both of literary and linguistic techniques, this text draws together extracts from novels written in French by writers from Francophone areas outside Europe, including North Africa, Black Africa, the Caribbean and North America.
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ...
Author: Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
A History of French Dramatic Literature in the Seventeenth Century ...: The period of Molière, 1652-1672. 2. v
Author: Henry Carrington LancasterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
1983
Author: D. J. AitkenPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112316010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
Book Description
No detailed description available for "1983".
Romain Gary
Author: Ralph SchoolcraftPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812203208
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
In this book Ralph Schoolcraft explores the extraordinary career of the modern French author, film director, and diplomat—a romantic and tragic figure whose fictions extended well beyond his books. Born Roman Kacew, he overcame an impoverished boyhood to become a French Resistance hero and win the coveted Goncourt Prize under the pseudonym—and largely invented persona—Romain Gary. Although he published such acclaimed works as The Roots of Heaven and Promise at Dawn, the Gaullist traditions that he defended in the world of French letters fell from favor, and his critical fortunes suffered at the hands of a hostile press. Schoolcraft details Gary's frustrated struggle to evolve as a writer in the eye of a public that now considered him a known quantity. Identifying the daring strategies used by this mysterious character as he undertook an elaborate scheme to reach a new readership, Schoolcraft offers new insight into the dynamics of authorship and fame within the French literary institutions. In the early 1970s Gary made his departure from the conservative literary establishment, publishing works that boasted a quirky, elliptical style under a variety of pseudonymous personae, the most successful of which was that of an Algerian immigrant by the name of Emile Ajar. Moving behind the mask of his new creation, Gary was able to win critical and popular acclaim and a second Goncourt in 1975. But as Schoolcraft suggests, Gary may have "sold his shadow"—that is, lost his authorial persona—by marketing himself too effectively. Going so far as to recruit a cousin to stand in as the public face of this phantom author, Gary kept the secret of his true authorship until his violent death in 1980 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The press reacted with resentment over the scheme, and he was shunned into the ranks of literary oddities. Schoolcraft draws from archives of the several thousand documents related to Gary housed at the French publishing firms of Gallimard and Mercure de France, as well as the Butler Library at Columbia University. Exploring the depths of a story that has long remained shrouded in mystery, Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow is as much a fascinating biographical sketch as it is a thought-provoking reflection on the assumptions made about identities in the public sphere.
Of Words and the World
Author: David R. EllisonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400820871
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Here David Ellison explores the problems encountered by France's best experimental authors writing between 1956 and 1984, when faced with the question: "What should my writing be about?" These years are characterized by the rise of the "new novelists," who questioned the representational function of writing as they created works of imagination that turned in upon themselves and away from exterior reality. It became fashionable at one point to affirm that literature was no longer about the world but uniquely about the words on a page, the signifying surface of the text. Ellison tests this assumption, showing that even in the most seemingly self-referential fictions the words point to the world from which they can never completely separate themselves. Through close readings Ellison examines the novels and theoretical writings of authors whose works are fundamental to our perception of contemporary French writing and thought: Camus, Robbe-Grillet, Simon, Duras, Sarraute, Blanchot, and Beckett. The result is a new understanding of the link between the referential function of literary language and the problematic of the ethics of fiction.
Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882
Author: Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Shakspeariana from 1564 to 1864
Author: Franz ThimmPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382172046
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
The Best Books
Author: William Swan SonnenscheinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description