Situations, Ii: Qu'est Ce Que La Litterature (French Edition)
ISBN:
9780686549932 (0686549937)
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Books About Books,
Philosophy,
France,
French Literature,
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This 1947 essay was fun to read, written with very lively force. As for its content, it's a long argument about the nature and purposes (these two being inseparable) of prose writing, entwined with a Marxist history of French literature (and, in passing, a critique of how the Communist Party is anti...
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 by Jean-Paul Sartre, now listed on BookLikes)