This book consists of essays and reviews that address social, political, and cultural issues which arose in connection with literature broadly conceived in the wake of the First World War, and extending throughout the twentieth century. The first portion of the volume concerns France, with both essays on individual writers such as Paul Val ry, Jacques Maritain, Albert Camus, Andr Malraux, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Yves Bonnefoy and a piece on...