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Absent without Leave: French Literature under the Threat of War Paperback - 1997
by Denis Hollier, Catherine Porter (Translator)
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- Title Absent without Leave: French Literature under the Threat of War
- Author Denis Hollier, Catherine Porter (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used:Good
- Pages 248
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
- Date 1997-11-15
- Features Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX0674212711
- ISBN 9780674212718 / 0674212711
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 9.23 x 6.02 x 0.59 in (23.44 x 15.29 x 1.50 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: French
- Library of Congress subjects French literature - 20th century - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97-16188
- Dewey Decimal Code 840.900
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From the rear cover
They were not the "Banquet Years", those anxious wartime years when poets and novelists were made to feel embarrassed by their impulse to write literature. And yet it was the attitude of those writers and critics in the 1930s and 1940s that shaped French literature - the ideas of Derrida, Foucault, de Man, Deleuze, and Ricoeur - and has so profoundly influenced literary enterprise in the English-speaking world since 1968. This literary history, the prehistory of postmodernism, is what Denis Hollier recovers in his interlocking studies of the main figures of French literary life before the age of anxiety gave way to the era of existentialist commitment. George Bataille, Michel Leiris, Roger Caillois, Andre Malraux, the early Jean-Paul Sartre are the figures Hollier considers, writers torn between politics and the pleasures of the text. They appear here uneasily balancing the influences of the philosopher and the man of action. These studies convey the paradoxical heroism of writers fighting for a world that would extend no rights or privileges to writers, writing for a world in which literature would become a reprehensible frivolity.
