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“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.” --- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities (18……続きを見る

Émile Zola was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.  From 1877 onw……続きを見る

This two-volume critical history of French children’s literature from 1600 to the present helps bring awareness of the range, quality, and importance of French children’s literature to a wider audie……続きを見る

A French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past). Contents Le Côté……続きを見る

In the wake of the French Revolution, history was no longer imagined as a cyclical process in which the succession of ruling dynasties was as predictable as the change in the seasons. Contemporaries……続きを見る

 J’ENTENDS dire tous les jours que Paris est la premiere Ville du Monde pour les agréments & les commodités de la vie, un Paradis terrestre où l’on trouve gén&ea……続きを見る

LES préjugés dont on revient le plus difficilement sont ceux que les gens d’esprit nous font adopter. L’Éloquence a sur nos cœurs des droits d’autant plus certains qu’ennemie en apparence de toute t……続きを見る

This book recuperates the important history that Haitian thought around Vodou possession has had in French critical theory. The author takes the period of the 1930s and ‘40s, as the centerfold of a ……続きを見る

Today it's called In Search of Lost Time, though an earlier generation knew it as Remembrance of Things Past. Under whatever title, and whichever translator, Proust's gargantuan novel has challenged……続きを見る

Si l’on pouvait supposer les Allemands capables d’une de ces mystifications qui marquent dans l’histoire des plaisanteries épiques, d’une de ces farces d’atelier telles qu’en perpétrai……続きを見る

Undoubtedly one of Africa’s most influential first generation of writers and filmmakers, Ousmane Sembene's creative works of fiction as well as his films have been the subject of a considerable numb……続きを見る

In this study of modernist aesthetics, Beryl Schlossman reveals how for such writers as Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, and Charles Baudelaire, the Orient came to symbolize the highest aspirations ……続きを見る

How do literary illustrations affect the way we readーor more subtly, what we read? Through a critical investigation of the role of engraving played in eighteenth-century French literature, Philip S……続きを見る

M. G. Clément-Simon n’a jamais cesse de s’intéresser aux choses historiques et littéraires de la Gascogne, soit tout le temps qu’il a été un des magistrats les plu……続きを見る

« Je ne sais qui a dit, je ne sais où, que la littérature et les arts influaient sur les mœurs. Qui que ce soit, c’est indubitablement un grand sot. C’est comme si l’on disait : les petits pois font……続きを見る

Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator, a redemptive epiphany in a pastry and a cup of l……続きを見る

One of the most written-about literary figures in the past decade, Arthur Rimbaud left few traces when he abandoned poetry at age twenty-one and disappeared into the African desert. Although the doz……続きを見る

Writerly Identities in Beur Fiction and Beyond explores the Beur/banlieue literary and cultural field from its beginnings in the 1980s to the present. It examines a set of postcolonial Bildungsroman……続きを見る

It is April 1793 and the final power struggle of the French Revolution is taking hold: the aristocrats are dead and the poor are fighting for bread in the streets. In a Paris swept by fear and hunge……続きを見る

This monograph represents the first comprehensive study of the multifaceted representations of the complex phenomenon of globalization in the diverse repertoire of the 2008 Nobel Laureate in Literat……続きを見る

This is a critical edition, or “édition critique,” of Victor Hugo’s play Hernani. The in-depth introduction includes a study of the manuscript, the galley proofs and all other original documents. Th……続きを見る

The Other Hybrid Archipelago presents the postcolonial literatures of the Francophone Indian Ocean islands to an Anglophone audience. The islands of Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, the Comoros, and ……続きを見る

Collective Memory examines the difficult transmission of memory in France of the Algerian war of independence (1954-62). Emphasizing the current lack of transmission of memories of this war through ……続きを見る

History's Place explores nostalgia as one of the defining aspects of the relationship between France and North Africa. Dr. Seth Graebner argues that France's most important colony developed a histor……続きを見る

For a century now, scholars have searched for the “source” of Marcel Proust’s startlingly innovative novel À la recherche du temps perdu. Some have pointed to Henri Bergson, Sigmund Freud, or Paul S……続きを見る

Sade’s Sensibilities tells a new story of one of the most enduring and controversial figures in European literature. Blending ideas about subjectivity, identity and natural philosophy with politics ……続きを見る

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