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Historical Dictionary of French Literature (Hardcover, New)
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Historical Dictionary of French Literature (Hardcover, New)
Series: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
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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 literature from the earliest times to the present. It
is also a particularly rich literature, espousing ever genre from
poetry, to novel, to biography, to drama, and adopting every style,
including realism and surrealism, and expressing the views of all
classes and political stands, with recently strong feminist and gay
strains. Obviously, the core dictionary section includes among its
panoply of often substantial and detailed entries, hundreds of
authors, dozens of significant works, the various styles mentioned
above and many others, events that have impacted literature such as
the Dreyfus Affair and the Algerian War, and literary prizes. The
chronology manages to cover about 1,200 years of literary output.
And the introduction sets it all out neatly from one historical and
literary period to the next. The bibliography, broken down by
period and author, directs us to further reading in both French and
English."
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