John Taylor

Paths to Contemporary French Literature (eBook, PDF)

Volume 3

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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. Here he examines various genres of politically committed literature (such as Jean Hatzfeld's "narratives" about Rwanda or Tchicaya U Tam'si's verse), some overlooked fiction, and several provocative experiments with literary form (ranging from the poetry of Jean-Paul Michel and Marie etienne to the "three-line novels" of Felix Feneon).

Taylor continues to reveal the remarkable resourcefulness of French writing. Besides drawing attention to authors (like Dai Sijie or Albert Cossery) who have come to French from other languages, he has added younger novelists to his critical panorama.

Challenging persistent cliches and recovering deserving voices from unjust neglect, Taylor's vision of French literature conjures up the image of a vital nexus. Poetry crisscrosses with prose, writers from one generation meet up with those from the next or the previous one, while the philosophical ideas underlying French writing are scrutinized. This is an essential guide to the realities of French culture today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351500623
• Artikelnr.: 48800604

Autorenporträt

John Taylor, born in Des Moines in 1952, has lived in France since 1977. He is the author of several volumes of short prose and poetry, most recently The Dark Brightness (Xenos Books, 2017), Grassy Stairways (The MadHat Press, 2017), Remembrance of Water & Twenty-Five Trees (The Bitter Oleander Press, 2018), and a "double book" coauthored with the Swiss poet Pierre Chappuis, A Notebook of Clouds & A Notebook of Ridges (The Fortnightly Review Press, 2019). As a polyglot literary critic and translator from French, Italian, and Modern Greek, Taylor has long been a bridge between European literature and English-speaking countries. His translation of Elias Papadimitrakopoulos's stories, Toothpaste with Chlorophyll & Maritime Hots Baths, originally published by Asylum Arts in 1992, was republished in 2020 by Coyote Arts.

Inhaltsangabe

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