What Is Literature?: And Other Essays
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781453228838 (1453228837)
Publish date: January 17th 2012
Publisher: Philosophical Library/Open Road
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Books About Books,
Philosophy,
France,
French Literature,
Theory
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...