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  • The Originality and Complexity of Albert Camus?s Writingsby Emmanuelle Anne Vanborre

    Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00

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  • Childhoodby Nathalie Sarraute; Alice Kaplan; Barbara Wright

    University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 18.00

    As 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...

  • Venicesby Paul Morand; Euan Cameron

    Pushkin Press 2013; US$ 10.19

    A 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 Blanchotby Ullrich Haase; William Large

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 24.95

    Without 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 Communismby Dr Lars Iyer

    Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 119.00

    Iyer 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 Beckettby Ronan McDonald

    Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 22.00

    An eloquent and accessible introduction to one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. more...

  • Jean-Paul Sartreby Christine Daigle

    Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 22.95

    A 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 Klassikby Leonhard Herrmann

    De Gruyter 2010; US$ 147.00

    Wilhelm 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...

  • L’influence de l’histoire contemporaine dans l’œuvre de Marguerite Yourcenarby Mireille Blanchet-Douspis

    Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 140.00

    L’influence de l’histoire contemporaine dans l’œuvre de Marguerite Yourcenar propose de montrer que, loin d’être seulement un écrivain classique qui s’intéresse à l’histoire du passé, Marguerite Yourcenar ne cesse d’évoquer l’histoire contemporaine et en subit nettement l’influence.... more...

  • Apollinaire on the Edgeby Willard Bohn

    Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 39.00

    The 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...