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Item Details
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THE WORD FROM PARIS
MODERN FRENCH WRITERS AND THINKERS |
| By: |
John Sturrock |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£18.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
185984832X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781859848326 |
| Publisher: |
VERSO BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
7 September, 1998 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
A guide to the literature and thought of 20th century France. The essays include discussions of: Proust; Celine; Sarraute; Perec; Foucault; Althusser; Lacan; Derrida; Sartre; Camus; and Barthes. Developments such as existentialism, the new novel, structuralism and the OuLiPo are also discussed. |
| Synopsis: |
French writing and French thought have always been held in a certain glamorous esteem. For young, radical philosophers of the 1960s searching out intellectual enlightenment in Left Bank cafes and bookshops, for serious-minded semiologists wishing to deconstruct everything around them, and for fans of the formal novel, France has remained a source of stimulation and fresh ideas. John Sturrock has written for many years about French literature and thought, and here presents a wonderfully accessible guide to the major figures of the last fifty years. Reviewing the various movements that have dominated the French intellectual scene - existentialism, the nouveua roman, structuralism, the OuLiPo - he illustrates how their proponents inspire and excite.How Jean-Paul Sartre, originally an author of little-known fiction, fused politics and philosophy to become one of the best known public intellectuals of the century; how Jacques Lacan's flamboyantly expressed ideas made him a hero to professors of literature while offending many of his fellow psychoanalysts; and how Boris Vian, who trained as an engineer, celebrated in his writing much of what was enjoyable to the French about America: jazz music, a mysterious criminal underworld, an irrevocable youthfulness. Written with great elegance and expertise, the essays in The Word from Paris make for an illuminating journey through the intellectual and cultural terrain of twentieth-century France. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Verso Books |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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