Henry de Montherlant Summary

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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 ... Read more