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Paths to Contemporary French Literature: Volume 2

Autor John Taylor
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 dec 2006
The first volume of Paths to Contemporary French Literature offered a critical panorama of over fifty French writers and poets. With this second volume, John Taylor—an American writer and critic who has lived in France for the past thirty years—continues this ambitious and critically acclaimed project.
Praised for his independence, curiosity, intimate knowledge of European literature, and his sharp reader's eye, John Taylor is a writer-critic who is naturally skeptical of literary fashions, overnight reputations, and readymade academic categories. Charting the paths that have lead to the most serious and stimulating contemporary French writing, he casts light on several neglected postwar French authors, all the while highlighting genuine mentors and invigorating newcomers. Some names (Patrick Chamoiseau, Pascal Quignard, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Jean Rouaud, Francis Ponge, Aime Cesaire, Marguerite Yourcenar, J. M. G. Le Clezio) may be familiar to the discriminating and inquisitive American reader, but their work is incisively re-evaluated here. The book also includes a moving remembrance of Nathalie Sarraute, and an evocation of the author's meetings with Julien Gracq Other writers in this second volume are equally deserving authors whose work is highly respected by their peers in France yet little known in English-speaking countries. Taylor's pioneering elucidations in this respect are particularly valuable.
This second volume also examines a number of non-French, originally non-French-speaking writers (such as Gherasim Luca, Petr Kral, Armen Lubin, Venus Ghoura-Khata, Piotr Rawicz, as well as Samuel Beckett) who chose French as their literary idiom. Taylor is in a perfect position to understand their motivations, struggles, and goals. In a day and age when so little is known in English-speaking countries about foreign literature, and when so little is translated, the two volumes of Paths to Contemporary French Literature are absorbing guides for literary scholars, writers, poets, students of French culture, and readers of contemporary fiction and poetry.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780765803702
ISBN-10: 0765803704
Pagini: 382
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction
Part 1: The Voice behind the Prose
Remembering Nathalie Sarraute
The Pilgrimage to Saint-Florent-le-Vieil
Part 2: French Humor
The Strange Case of Dr. Froeppel and Monsieur Tardieu
A Puree of Black Thoughts (Pierre Autin-Grenier)
Dead-Serious Wordplay (Gherasim Luca)
Of Farce and Fragility (Cordebard)
Two Brow-Bashing Comics (Louis Aragon and Rene Crevel)
Breaking Dishes in Neverland (Raymond Queneau)
One is not Serious at 117 (Jean-Pierre Verheggen)
A Tongue In and Out of Cheek (Christian Gailly)
A Deceptive Lightness of Being (Jean-Philippe Toussaint)
Part 3: Dreaming and Dailiness
A Little Tour through the Land of Alain-Fournier
Haunting Transparence of the World (Jean Follain)
Intuitions of Elsewhere (Gustave Roud)
In Praise of Lightness (Pierre Lartigue)
From the Middle of Nowhere (Jean Rouaud)
Commemorating Life's "Minuscule Pleasures" (Philippe Delerm)
Comprehending the Quotidian (Petr Kral)
The Clandestine Passenger of French Poetry (Armen Lubin)
The Voices of Tattered People (Francois Bon)
Prose from a No-Man's Land (Daniel Zimmermann)
Part 4: Language Reaching Out
The Lure of Things (Francis Ponge)
The Essential Enigmas (Michel de Smet)
Making a Gift to the Possibilities of Telling (Michel Deguy)
Bonnefoy and Shakespeare
The Path to Impersonalization (Danielle Collobert)
Ladders Leading Beyond the Self (Salah Stetie)
Of Language and the Human Heart (Annie Saumont)
From Cesaire to Chamoiseau
Part 5: The Quest for "Life"
Feeling our Aliveness (Michel Henry)
Elusive "Life" (Eugene Savitzkaya)
"Belief, Magic, Miracle": Louis Calaferte as Poet
A Passionate Lettre (Pascal Quignard)
Part 6: Myths and Mysteries of Eros
The Art of Convivance (Florence Delay)
A Misere of Forget-Me-Nots (Genevieve Huttin)
The Governing Passions of Exceptional Lives (Michele Desbordes)
Eros' Landscapes (Patrick Drevet)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Dominique Mainard)
From the Heart of the Limousin (Richard Millet)
Protean, Paradoxical Jean Paulhan
Sensual Intellect (Catherine Pozzi)
Meta-Eroticism and Simulacra (Pierre Klossowski)
The Double Keyboard of Sensuality and Spirituality (Claude Louis-Combet)
Part 7: Mirrors and Prisms of Autobiography
Autobiography as Panegyric (Guy Debord)
The Perils of Autobiography (Marguerite Yourcenar)
The Survivor's Tale (Piotr Rawicz)
The Moral Traps of Occupied France (Emmanuel Bove)
Irene Nemirovsky's Final Manuscript
Of Heritage and Experience (Emmanuel Moses)
The Commitment of an Incessant Traveler (J. M. G. Le Clezio)
Before the First Page (Venus Khoury-Ghata)
Part 8: The Life and the Work
I Can't Go On, I'll Go On (Samuel Beckett)
The Intimate Pierre Guyotat
From Aristotle's Quandary to French and American Prose Poems
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Descriere

The first volume of Paths to Contemporary French Literature offered a critical panorama of over fifty French writers and poets