A highly readable and accessible introduction to French literature from the Middle Ages to the present, through a sequence of chapters on major French writers of their time. A comprehensive and engaging account of the riches and pleasures of one of the world's great literary traditions.
A highly readable and accessible introduction to French literature from the Middle Ages to the present, through a sequence of chapters on major French writers of their time. A comprehensive and engaging account of the riches and pleasures of one of the world's great literary traditions.
Brian Nelson is Professor Emeritus of French Studies and Translation Studies at Monash University, Victoria, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His publications include Perspectives on Literature and Translation: Creation, Circulation, Reception (co-edited with Brigid Maher, 2013), The Cambridge Companion to Emile Zola (Cambridge, 2007) and translations of the novels of Émile Zola.
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Preface Acknowledgements Chronology 1. Villon: a dying man 2. Rabelais: the uses of laughter 3. Montaigne: self-portrait 4. Corneille: heroes and kings 5. Racine: in the labyrinth 6. Molière: new forms of comedy 7. La Fontaine: the power of fables/fables of power 8. Madame de Lafayette: the birth of the modern novel 9. Voltaire: the case for tolerance 10. Rousseau: man of feeling 11. Diderot: the enlightened sceptic 12. Laclos: dangerous liaisons 13. Stendhal: the pursuit of happiness 14. Balzac: 'All is true' 15. Hugo: the divine stenographer 16. Baudelaire: the streets of Paris 17. Flaubert: the narrator vanishes 18. Zola: the poetry of the real 19. Huysmans: against nature 20. Mallarmé: the magic of words 21. Rimbaud: somebody else 22. Proust: the self, time and art 23. Jarry: the art of provocation 24. Apollinaire: impresario of the new 25. Breton and company: surrealism 26. Céline: night journey 27. Sartre: writing in the world 28. Camus: a moral voice 29. Beckett: filling the silence 30. French literature into the twenty-first century Notes Further reading.
Preface Acknowledgements Chronology 1. Villon: a dying man 2. Rabelais: the uses of laughter 3. Montaigne: self-portrait 4. Corneille: heroes and kings 5. Racine: in the labyrinth 6. Molière: new forms of comedy 7. La Fontaine: the power of fables/fables of power 8. Madame de Lafayette: the birth of the modern novel 9. Voltaire: the case for tolerance 10. Rousseau: man of feeling 11. Diderot: the enlightened sceptic 12. Laclos: dangerous liaisons 13. Stendhal: the pursuit of happiness 14. Balzac: 'All is true' 15. Hugo: the divine stenographer 16. Baudelaire: the streets of Paris 17. Flaubert: the narrator vanishes 18. Zola: the poetry of the real 19. Huysmans: against nature 20. Mallarmé: the magic of words 21. Rimbaud: somebody else 22. Proust: the self, time and art 23. Jarry: the art of provocation 24. Apollinaire: impresario of the new 25. Breton and company: surrealism 26. Céline: night journey 27. Sartre: writing in the world 28. Camus: a moral voice 29. Beckett: filling the silence 30. French literature into the twenty-first century Notes Further reading.
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