Nelson, Brian, 1946- author.
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.;©2015
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Part of the series Cambridge introductions;Cambridge introductions to literature.
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- In this highly accessible introduction, Brian Nelson provides an overview of French literature – its themes and forms, traditions and transformations – from the Middle Ages to the present. Major writers, including Francophone authors writing from areas other than France, are discussed chronologically in the context of their times, to provide a sense of the development of the French literary tradition and the strengths of the most influential writers within it. Nelson offers close readings of exemplary passages from key works, presented in the original French and with an English translation. The exploration of the work of important writers, including Villon, Racine, Molière, Voltaire, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Proust, Sartre and Beckett, highlights the richness and diversity of French literature — Provided by publisher.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Machine generated contents note: Preface Acknowledgements Chronology 1. Villon: a dying man 2. Rabelais: the uses of laughter 3. Montaigne: self-portrait 4. Corneille: heroes and kings 5. Racine: in the labyrinth 6. Molière: new forms of comedy 7. La Fontaine: the power of fables/fables of power 8. Madame de Lafayette: the birth of the modern novel 9. Voltaire: the case for tolerance 10. Rousseau: man of feeling 11. Diderot: the enlightened sceptic 12. Laclos: dangerous liaisons 13. Stendhal: the pursuit of happiness 14. Balzac: ‘All is true’ 15. Hugo: the divine stenographer 16. Baudelaire: the streets of Paris 17. Flaubert: the narrator vanishes 18. Zola: the poetry of the real 19. Huysmans: against nature 20. Mallarme : the magic of words 21. Rimbaud: somebody else 22. Proust: the self, time and art 23. Jarry: the art of provocation 24. Apollinaire: impresario of the new 25. Breton and company: surrealism 26. Ce line: night journey 27. Sartre: writing in the world 28. Camus: a moral voice 29. Beckett: filling the silence 30. French literature into the twenty-first century Notes Further reading.
- Passages in French with English translation.
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