In the following essay, Birkett and Kearns provide a detailed history of modern French literature, including an overview of novels, plays, and poetry.
I the Novel
1914-39: New Ideas and Forms
The m...
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In the following essay, Anderson traces the development of the French ethical imagination in the twentieth century, noting that as the century progressed, French intellectuals moved away from forms of...
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In the following essay, Balakian traces the path of modern French poetry with an examination of the works of Stéphane Mallarmé and André Breton.
Separated by half a century, St...
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In the following essay, Bishop presents an overview of Bonnefoy's poetry, characterizing the poet as one of the most influential in modern French letters.
Les mots comme le ciel Infini Mais ...
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In the following excerpt from the introduction to Anthology of Second World War French Poetry, Higgins provides a critical analysis of French war poetry.
Iv Poetry
A remarkable literary feature of ...
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In the following essay, Atack examines postwar French literature.
‘the Game of War and Chance’1
In L'Univers concentrationnaire (The Concentration Camp World), David Rousset pl...
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In the following introduction to Modern French Drama: 1940-1980, Bradby presents a brief overview of the state of French theater following World War I.
When the second war broke out in Europe, the ...
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In the following essay, Bradby discusses major French dramatists and directors of the 1970s, focusing on both playwriting and staging issues.
In the course of the seventies, major changes have take...
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In the following essay, Guérin traces the development of French theater from the 1930s to the 1960s, noting that the non-establishment authors of the 1960s are now part of the established Frenc...
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In the following essay, Knapp provides a brief history of French playwrights and directors during the years between the two world wars.
11 November 1918. The Armistice. The end of World War I. A sp...
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In the following essay, King examines the works of Nathalie Sarraute, noting that the writer did not associate her strong sense of political feminism with her work.
When I write, I am neither man n...
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In the following essay, King presents an overview of Duras's writing, focusing mainly on her novels.
Woman is desire. … We don't write at all from the same place as men. And wh...
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In the following essay, Houlding examines feminine and gender issues occupying French intellectuals during the war years based on an examination of Violette Leduc's La Bâtarde.
At nig...
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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
develope...
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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 Hon...
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Megan Hustad was working as a book editor when she decided to reconsider her lifelong contempt for self-help and success literature. She was in her late 20’s, and she had already f...
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As vacation time nears, it is safe to say that no matter how rotten things get on the big screen during the rest of the summer, the worst of it is over. Hollywood cannot pollute the ozone with anyt...
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As vacation time nears, it is safe to say that no matter how rotten things get on the big screen during the rest of the summer, the worst of it is over. Hollywood cannot pollute the ozone with anyt...
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While lots of bright-eyed young women come to New York to take acting classes or become publicists, Lila Azam Zanganeh—an Iranian-French journalist, amateur opera singer and self-described Na...
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Critical Essay by Jennifer Birkett and James Kearns
The Whirlwind Life of TonySlattery
