French Fiction Revisited

by Leon Samuel Roudiez and Leon S. Roudiez

Book Overview

The most interesting French fiction since World War II is also the most revolutionary, exploring new narrative techniques and incorporating challenging new ideas in aesthetics, politics, psychoanalysis, gender, linguistics, and philosophy. This fiction looks strange and forbidding to American readers, however, which makes Roudiez's overview of postwar French fiction a welcome guide. In a revised and updated version of his French Fiction Today, Roudiez...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916583732
• ISBN13: 9780916583736
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher