Praised for his independence, curiosity, intimate knowledge of French literature, and sharp reader's eye, John Taylor is a writer-critic who is naturally skeptical of literary fashions, overnight reputations, and readymade academic categories
Praised for his independence, curiosity, intimate knowledge of French literature, and sharp reader's eye, John Taylor is a writer-critic who is naturally skeptical of literary fashions, overnight reputations, and readymade academic categories
IntroductionPart 1: What Is, and What Might BePath, Light, Space (Pierre-Albert Jourdan) Strolling out from the Self (Jean Follain, Henri Thomas, Philippe Jaccottet, Jacques Reda, Paul de Roux, Guy Goffette, Gilles Ortlieb) Rare Confi dent Moments (Philippe Jaccottet) In Search of the Absurd Evidence (Rene Daumal) Experience and Solitude (Paul Gadenne) A Modern Psalmist (Jean Grosjean) The Angel's Shoulder (Alexandre Romanes) Open-Eyed Drifting (Richard Rognet) The Music of What Is (Jean-Paul Michel)Part 2: Of Amorous CaptivityThe Language of Attachment (Laurence Werner David) Longing for the Ultimate Polestar (Jean Genet) From Sicilian Defenses to Tango Dancing (Brina Svit) Exalting Exitless Exits (Marcel Moreau) The Perils of Absolute Love (Marie-Claude Vincent) Narratives of Mood and Movement (Anne Serre) Crucial Quests (Cecile Wajsbrot) Meditations on the Real and the Imaginary (Emmanuel Hocquard) Styling Melancholy (Irene Schavelzon) Resonating beyond Elegy (Claude Vigee)Part 3: Forms of CommitmentRene Maran's Pioneering Batouala For a Reissue of Yambo Ouologuem's Le Devoir de violence A New Kind of French Engage Writing (Jean Hatzfeld) Bookish Passions (Yannick Haenel) Two Hesitations about the Recent Fiction of J. M. G. Le Clezio The Flickering Flames (Jean-Pierre Rosnay) Moving, Misguided, Melodious Lines (Louis Aragon) Rereading Tchicaya U Tam'si Three Chinese Francophones (Francois Cheng, Dai Sijie, Gao Xingjian) Drooping Eyelids, a Farcical World (Albert Cossery)Part 4: Narrative ArithmeticThe Arithmetic of Being in the World (Marie etienne) Robert Pinget's Ear Three-Line Novels (Felix Feneon) The Languages of Alta Ifland Unities and Disunities of Raymond Queneau Two Instructive Fabulists (Pierre Bettencourt and Jean-Marie Le Sidaner) A Defrocked Ethnologist (Jacques Meunier) A French Modernist a la chinoise (Victor Segalen)Part 5: Hommes De Lettres in the MirrorAn Aloof Modesty (Georges Henein) Myth and Mythomania (Andre Malraux) Ghosts in the Mirror (Alain Robbe-Grillet) The Worm of Insubordination (Georges Belmont) The Gossamer Threads of a Life (Julien Green) Facing Edmond Jabes The Moods of a Man of Letters (Valery Larbaud)Notes Bibliography Index
IntroductionPart 1: What Is, and What Might BePath, Light, Space (Pierre-Albert Jourdan) Strolling out from the Self (Jean Follain, Henri Thomas, Philippe Jaccottet, Jacques Reda, Paul de Roux, Guy Goffette, Gilles Ortlieb) Rare Confi dent Moments (Philippe Jaccottet) In Search of the Absurd Evidence (Rene Daumal) Experience and Solitude (Paul Gadenne) A Modern Psalmist (Jean Grosjean) The Angel's Shoulder (Alexandre Romanes) Open-Eyed Drifting (Richard Rognet) The Music of What Is (Jean-Paul Michel)Part 2: Of Amorous CaptivityThe Language of Attachment (Laurence Werner David) Longing for the Ultimate Polestar (Jean Genet) From Sicilian Defenses to Tango Dancing (Brina Svit) Exalting Exitless Exits (Marcel Moreau) The Perils of Absolute Love (Marie-Claude Vincent) Narratives of Mood and Movement (Anne Serre) Crucial Quests (Cecile Wajsbrot) Meditations on the Real and the Imaginary (Emmanuel Hocquard) Styling Melancholy (Irene Schavelzon) Resonating beyond Elegy (Claude Vigee)Part 3: Forms of CommitmentRene Maran's Pioneering Batouala For a Reissue of Yambo Ouologuem's Le Devoir de violence A New Kind of French Engage Writing (Jean Hatzfeld) Bookish Passions (Yannick Haenel) Two Hesitations about the Recent Fiction of J. M. G. Le Clezio The Flickering Flames (Jean-Pierre Rosnay) Moving, Misguided, Melodious Lines (Louis Aragon) Rereading Tchicaya U Tam'si Three Chinese Francophones (Francois Cheng, Dai Sijie, Gao Xingjian) Drooping Eyelids, a Farcical World (Albert Cossery)Part 4: Narrative ArithmeticThe Arithmetic of Being in the World (Marie etienne) Robert Pinget's Ear Three-Line Novels (Felix Feneon) The Languages of Alta Ifland Unities and Disunities of Raymond Queneau Two Instructive Fabulists (Pierre Bettencourt and Jean-Marie Le Sidaner) A Defrocked Ethnologist (Jacques Meunier) A French Modernist a la chinoise (Victor Segalen)Part 5: Hommes De Lettres in the MirrorAn Aloof Modesty (Georges Henein) Myth and Mythomania (Andre Malraux) Ghosts in the Mirror (Alain Robbe-Grillet) The Worm of Insubordination (Georges Belmont) The Gossamer Threads of a Life (Julien Green) Facing Edmond Jabes The Moods of a Man of Letters (Valery Larbaud)Notes Bibliography Index
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