Considered by some to be one of the most impressive French writers of the twentieth century, Montherlant made his reputation with a series of outrageously antifeminist novels in the 1930s. Then, at th...
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Critical Essay by Louis Kronenberger
M. de Montherlant's novel ["The Bullfighters"] is the first I know to raise bullfighting beyond either mere spectacle or mere study, and to p...
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Critical Essay by Allen Thiher
Many have seen Montherlant's first play, L'Exil, as the key to his following theatrical works. It is true that Montherlant's tragic heroes are cont...
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Critical Essay by P. J. Norrish
Most of [Montherlant's] dramatic heroes aspire to act in ways that are above those usually found at the common level of humanity. They believe in cultivating wh...
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Critical Essay by Elizabeth Bowen
In France, where the intelligent novel goes far, these books about women (women in love) [Montherlant's Les Jeunes Filles] have been widely enough read to rou...
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Critical Essay by Simone De Beauvoir
Montherlant belongs to the long tradition of males who have adopted as their own the proud Manichaeism of Pythagoras. Following Nietzsche, he holds that only epoc...
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Critical Essay by Henri Peyre
["The Bachelors"] has no plot, no content, little characterization, only style and avid irony. Montherlant's hatred for these members of his aristoc...
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Critical Essay by Gene Baro
Henry de Montherlant is a moralist, this is to say a writer whose principal concern is how man ought to live. His essays, plays, and novels serve this inquiry; they record...
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Critical Essay by Lucille Becker
Throughout Montherlant's dramatic production, there exists a striking similarity of thematic content. Virtually each play stresses the drive for self-realizati...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
Chaos and Night is concerned with a relic of the war, a Spanish anarchist, now sixty-seven, who has been exiled in Paris for twenty years. The old anecdote tells u...
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Critical Essay by Jacques Guicharnaud
What interests Montherlant in Le Maître de Santiago is not the hero's struggle or relationship with God but the inner mechanism of the psychologica...
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Critical Essay by Leo Bersani
Henry de Montherlant, that haughty aristocrat of French letters …, is at his best when he diverts psychological tension into a rather grand, sporty, occasionally ...
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On Jan. 31, 2005, the BBC made it official: On the evening news, the anchor gravely announced the publication of Ian McEwan's new novel, Saturday, and proclaimed the author "the international voice...
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