Absent Without Leave: French Literature Under the Threat of War

by Denis Hollier

Book Overview

They were not the "Banquet Years," those anxious wartime years when poets and novelists were made to feel embarrassed by their impulse to write literature. And yet it was the attitude of those writers and critics in the 1930s and 1940s that shaped French literature--the ideas of Derrida, Foucault, de Man, Deleuze, and Ricoeur--and has so profoundly influenced literary enterprise in the English-speaking world since 1968. This literary history, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674212711
• ISBN13: 9780674212718
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"