Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- 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 Mallarmé: 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 … Company: Surrealism
- 26 Céline: 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
- Index of authors and titles
- Index of genres, movements and concepts
- Cambridge Introductions to …
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- 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 Mallarmé: 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 … Company: Surrealism
- 26 Céline: 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
- Index of authors and titles
- Index of genres, movements and concepts
- Cambridge Introductions to …
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- The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature , pp. 243 - 250Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015