What Is Literature and Other Essays - Couverture rigide

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674950836 ISBN 13 : 9780674950832

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1988

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

What is Literature? remains the most significant critical landmark of French literature since World War II. Neither abstract nor abstruse, it is a brilliant, provocative performance by a writer more inspired than cautious. "What is Literature" challenges anyone who writes as if literature could be extricated from history or society. But Sartre does more than indict. He offers a definitive statement about the phenomenology of reading, and he goes on to provide a dashing example of how to write a history of literature that takes ideology and institutions into account. This new edition of "What is Literature" also collects three other crucial essays of Sartre's for the first time in a volume of his. The essays presenting Sartre's monthly, Les Temps modernes, and on the peculiarly French manner of nationalizing literature do much to create a context for Sartre's treatise. "Black Orpheus" has been for many years a key text for the study of black and third-world literatures.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Jean-Paul Sartre, the great figure of French literary and philosophical culture at mid-century, was the author of numerous works.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0674950836
• ISBN 13: 9780674950832
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 376