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  • Levinas Faces Biblical Figures

    This collection of essays is an attempt to capture the drama of the encounter, of the 'facing' of Levinas and the biblical text. It seeks to link Jewish experience and Levinasian themes such as responsibility, substitution, hospitality, suffering and forgiveness, and at the same time make the biblical text accessible in a new way.The book offers new insights on the opening up of Levinas's thought ... Read more

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  • Voices of Pain, Cries of Silence

    Francophone Jewish Poetry of the Shoah, 1939–2008

    by Gary D. Mole ...
    Series Book 259 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures
    In this groundbreaking study of Francophone Jewish poetry of the Shoah, Gary D. Mole engages with an extensive corpus of poetry by more than forty poets, all of whom were active after the war in France, Belgium, Switzerland, or Quebec but who came originally from Eastern Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East. Some were adolescents or adults during the war, either in hiding, interned or deported ... Read more

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    French Intellectuals, 1944-1956

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  • Monsieur Proust's Library

    Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play ... Read more

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  • Before Auschwitz

    Irène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France

    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book analyses Irene Némirovsky’s literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France. It examines topics of central importance to our understanding of the literary field in France in the period, such as: the close relationship between politics and literature; the historical, political, cultural and personal legacies of the First World ... Read more

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  • The Incident at Antioch / L’Incident d’Antioche

    A Tragedy in Three Acts / Tragédie en trois actes

    by Alain Badiou ...
    Translated by Susan Spitzer ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    The Incident at Antioch is a key play marking Alain Badiou's transition from classical Marxism to a "politics of subtraction" far removed from party and state. Written with striking eloquence and extraordinary poetic richness, and shifting from highly serious emotional and intellectual drama to surreal comic interlude, the work features statesmen, workers, and revolutionaries struggling to ... Read more

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  • Generation Stalin

    French Writers, the Fatherland, and the Cult of Personality

    A look at how four French writers of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s contributed to the rise of Stalin in their country and abroad.Generation Stalin traces Joseph Stalin's rise as a dominant figure in French political culture from the 1930s through the 1950s. Andrew Sobanet brings to light the crucial role French writers played in building Stalin's cult of personality and in disseminating Stalinist ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Camus

    Edited by Edward J. Hughes ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Albert Camus is one of the iconic figures of twentieth-century French literature, one of France's most widely read modern literary authors and one of the youngest winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. As the author of L'Etranger and the architect of the notion of 'the Absurd' in the 1940s, he shot to prominence in France and beyond. His work nevertheless attracted hostility as well as acclaim ... Read more

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  • Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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  • The Némirovsky Question

    The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in Twentieth-Century France

    A fascinating look into the life and work of controversial French novelist Irène Némirovsky Irène Némirovsky succeeded in creating a brilliant career as a novelist in the 1930s, only to have her life cut short: a “foreign Jew” in France, she was deported in 1942 and died in Auschwitz. But her two young daughters survived, and as adults they brought their mother back to life. In 2004, Suite ... Read more

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  • The Fall Out of Redemption

    Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in Baudelaire, Cioran, Fondane, Agamben, and Nancy

    Joseph Acquisto examines literary writers and critical theorists who employ theological frameworks, but who divorce that framework from questions of belief and thereby remove the doctrine of salvation from their considerations. Acquisto claims that Baudelaire inaugurates a new kind of amodern modernity by canceling the notion of salvation in his writing while also refusing to embrace any of its ... Read more

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  • Historical Dictionary of French Literature

    by John Flower ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    Almost all of us know French literature, even if we don’t know French, because it is probably the second largest and certainly the most translated into English. And, even if we don’t read, we would have seen film and television versions (think Count of Monte-Cristo) and even a musical rendition (Les Mis). So this is a particularly interesting volume in the literature series, since it covers French ... Read more

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