On Poetry and Politics

by Éric Trudel and Jean Paulhan

Jean Paulhan was a legendary editorial figure of twentieth-century French literature, assisting and publishing many of the most important writers of his lifetime. He was also the author of several volumes of fiction and numerous essays dealing with literature, art, rhetoric, and language. Yet he published his own work in a manner that deliberately kept it inconspicuous, or as Maurice Blanchot put it, "in the margins." A critics' critic, he gave his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252032802
• ISBN13: 9780252032806
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"