This article is a general introduction to French literature. For detailed information on French literature in specific historic periods, see the separate historical articles in the template to the right. French literature is, generally speaking,...
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In the 1980s, some observers confidently asserted that the argument for retaining the study of literature as a major component of foreign-language degree programmes had in principle been won.1 The practice in Britain has proven not to correspond. Further, the prediction of Anthony Lodge,...
John Taylor. Paths to Contemporary French Literature. Transaction, 2004. 358 pp. $44.95. The paths that John Taylor invites us to walk in this book are inviting ones: fifty-five luminous essays devoted to the broad avenues and the seductive byways of contemporary writing in...
Tiny Tony Tony was born in 1959 to an Irish family who lived on a North London housing estate. Since he felt naturally detached from his brothers, who were triplets, the young Tony developed an active imaginary life. Hardly the typical dreamy child, Tony...
Nobel laureate for literature Nadine Gordimer, noted for her work about the inhumanity of apartheid, has become one of just a few South Africans to receive France's highest award, the Legion of Honor.Gordimer was awarded the decorative medal on at a ceremony over the weekend...
