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Lyrical, mysterious, and laden with symbolism, Franz Kafka’s novels and stories have been translated into more than forty languages ranging from Icelandic to Japanese. In Transforming Kafka, Patrick……続きを見る

In more than ninety novels and novellas, Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) created a universe teeming with over two thousand characters. The Misfit of the Family reveals how Balzac, in imagining the dens……続きを見る

The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon is built around a bizarre historical event and an off-hand challenge. The event? In December 1840, nearly twenty years after his death, the remains of Napoleon we……続きを見る

With an introduction by Edmund White This new short biography and critical work cuts directly to the essence of Genet’s life, a life of extraordinary spectacle that was always profoundly entangled w……続きを見る

What sort of society could bind together Jacques Roubaud, Italo Calvino, Marcel Duchamp, and Raymond Queneauーand Daniel Levin Becker, a young American obsessed with language play? Only the Oulipo, ……続きを見る

René Blum and the Ballets Russes documents the life of the enigmatic and brilliant writer and producer who resurrected the Ballets Russes after Diaghilev died. Based on a treasure trove of previousl……続きを見る

This engaging book spans three centuries to provide the first full account of the long and diverse history of genius in France. Exploring a wide range of examples from literature, philosophy, and hi……続きを見る

Cette fiche de lecture sur La Peste d'Albert Camus propose une analyse complète : • un résumé de La Peste de Camus • une introduction du contexte • une présentation des thèmes et axes de lecture • u……続きを見る

The age of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Erasmus, Luther, and Machiavelli produced in France too some of Europe's greatest ever literature and thought: Montaigne's Essays, Rabelais' comic fictions, Ronsar……続きを見る

Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism explores the multi-faceted and formative impact of Gilles Deleuze on the development and our understanding of modernist thought in its philosophical, l……続きを見る

In his Essais, Montaigne stresses that his theoretical interest in philosophy goes hand in hand with its practicality. In fact, he makes it clear that there is little reason to live our lives accord……続きを見る

Extrait : Si je n’ay plus la faveur de la Muse, Et si mes vers se trouvent imparfaits, Le lieu, le temps, l’aage où je les ay faits, Et mes ennuis leur serviront d’excuse. J’estois à Rome au milieu ……続きを見る

An overview of Proust's development as a writer and an in-depth study of his major novel, In Search of Lost Time Understanding Marcel Proust includes an overview of Marcel Proust's development as a ……続きを見る

First published in 1993. This volume is th author's observations of his reading of Fabliaux in order to observe their materials, methods and to evaluate the effect of those methods. He looks at 150 ……続きを見る

La Dame aux Camelias still has the power to cast the spell that has fascinated generations of readers. Dumas's marvellously beautiful, intelligent, and vibrant heroine lives on in revivals of the st……続きを見る

J’aime Thomas ; je respecte la fierté de son âme et la noblesse de son caractère : c’est un homme de beaucoup d’esprit ; c’est un homme de bien ; ce n’est donc pas un homme ordinaire. À en juger par……続きを見る

This book re-assesses director Jean Renoir’s work between his departure from France in 1940 and his death in 1979, and contributes to the debate over how the medium of film registers the impact of t……続きを見る

This translation, first published in 1993, presents a little-known medieval romance to readers who do not know Old French, or who are generally unfamiliar with the literature of the Middle Ages. Pro……続きを見る

This study interrogates how the French empire was imagined in three literary representations of French colonialism: the conquest of Tahiti, and the established colonial systems in Martinique and in ……続きを見る

These books are the first full-length, comprehensive study written in English of French children’s literature. They provide both an overview of developments from the seventeenth century to the prese……続きを見る

More than a book about food alone, French Food uses diet as a window into issues of nationality, literature, and culture in France and abroad. Outstanding contributors from cultural studies, literar……続きを見る

First published in 1996. This text provides an introduction to the historical and cultural context of Sartre and his work. It explores and explains the conflicting critical reactions to Sartre's wor……続きを見る

Literature that explored female homosexuality flourished in late nineteenth-century France. Poets, novelists, and pornographers, whether Symbolists, Realists, or Decadents, were all part of this lit……続きを見る

Allegorical Bodies begins with the paradoxical observation that at the same time as the royal administrators of late fourteenth and early fifteenth-century France excluded women from the royal succe……続きを見る

Widely acknowledged as an important, if highly controversial, figure in contemporary literature, French novelist and poet Michel Houellebecq has elicited diverse critical responses. In this book Car……続きを見る

Alexandre Dumas's novels are notable for their suspense and excitement, their foul deeds, hairsbreadth escapes, and glorious victories. In The Black Tulip (1850), the shortest of Dumas's most famous……続きを見る

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, a été relu et corrigé. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait de la préface : AU moment où, sur tous l……続きを見る

The emblem and the device (or impresa as it was called in Italy) were the most direct and telling manifestations of a mentality that played a significant role in the discourse and art in Western Eur……続きを見る

he French presence in English literary history in the centuries following the Conquest has to some extent been glossed over or treated as an interlude. During this period, roughly 1100-1420, French,……続きを見る

Huit jours après la scène que nous venons de raconter, vers cinq heures du soir à peu près, une voiture attelée de quatre chevaux et conduite par deux postillons sortait de Pont-à-Mousson, petite vi……続きを見る