Literature, Art and the Pursuit of Decay in Twentieth-Century France

by Timothy Mathews

Book Overview

Timothy Mathews examines work by a range of writers and painters working in France in the twentieth century. This book engages with canonical figures--Guillaume Apollinaire, Marguerite Duras and Jean Genet, Roland Barthes, Pablo Picasso and Ren Magritte--as well as more neglected individuals including Robert Desnos and Jean Fautrier. Integrating theoretical and material approaches to reading and viewing, Mathews engages with the distinctive features...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521023769
• ISBN13: 9780521023764
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"