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The Originality and Complexity of Albert Camus?s Writings
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00The book shows Camus's continued relevance for us today. more...
Childhood
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 18.00As one of the leading proponents of the nouveau roman , Nathalie Sarraute is often remembered for her novels, including The Golden Fruits , which earned her the Prix international de litterature in 1964. But her carefully crafted and evocative memoir Childhood may in fact be Sarraute’s most accessible and emotionally open work. Written... more...
Venices
Pushkin Press 2013; US$ 10.19A poetic evocation of the French diplomat?s encounters and experiences, filtered through the one constant in his life?Venice. Diplomat, writer and poet, traveller and socialite, friend of Proust, Giraudoux and Malraux, Paul Morand was out of the most original writers of the twentieth century. He was French literature's globe-trotter, and his delightful... more...
Maurice Blanchot
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 24.95Without Maurice Blanchot, literary theory as we know it today would have been unthinkable. Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze: all are key theorists crucially influenced by Blanchot's work. This accessible guide: * works 'idea by idea' through Blanchot's writings, anchoring them in historical and intellectual... more...
Blanchot's Communism
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 119.00Iyer argues for the transformative potential for philosophy and political practice of the thought of Maurice Blanchot. The book traces Blanchot's complex negotiations of the thought of Hegel, Heidegger, Bataille and Levinas, which allowed him to develop his distinctive account of the work of art and his account of the opening to the Other. Iyer also... more...
The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 22.00An eloquent and accessible introduction to one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. more...
Jean-Paul Sartre
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 22.95A critical figure in twentieth-century literature and philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre changed the course of critical thought, and claimed a new, important role for the intellectual. Christine Daigle sets Sartre?s thought in context, and considers a number of key ideas in detail, charting their impact and continuing influence, including: Sartre?s... more...
Klassiker jenseits der Klassik
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 147.00Wilhelm Heinse?s novel Ardinghello und die glückseligen Inseln (?Ardinghell and the Blessed Islands?) (1787) is often rejected as an unsuitable object for literary criticism ? it is seen as formally defective, overladen with theory and hardly comprehensible to the modern reader. Leonhard Herrmann demonstrates that it is these very qualities which make... more...
Linfluence de lhistoire contemporaine dans luvre de Marguerite Yourcenar
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 140.00Linfluence de lhistoire contemporaine dans luvre de Marguerite Yourcenar propose de montrer que, loin dêtre seulement un écrivain classique qui sintéresse à lhistoire du passé, Marguerite Yourcenar ne cesse dévoquer lhistoire contemporaine et en subit nettement linfluence.... more...
Apollinaire on the Edge
Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 39.00The title of the present study refers to the fact that Apollinaire consistently worked at the cutting edge of modern aesthetics. The volume seeks to rehabilitate four experimental genres in particular that have received relatively little attention. The fi more...









