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Author Brosman, Catharine Savage, 1934-

Title Existential fiction / Catherine Savage Brosman.

Imprint Detroit : Gale Group, c2000.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  843.009 B793e 2000    ---  Available
Description xviii, 251 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series Literary topics, 1526-1549 v. 8
Gale study guides to great literature
Note "A Manly, Inc. book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-242) and index.
Contents An introduction to existential thought and fiction -- Historical background to French existential fiction -- Some existential philosophers. Pascal. Kierkegaard. Nietzche. Husserl. Heidegger. Other existential philosophers outside France -- French existential novelists prior to 1940. Gide. Martin du Gard. Saint-Exupery. Malraux -- French existentialists and their contemporaries. Sartre. Beauvoir. Camus. Marcel and Merleau-Ponty. Three other writers -- Hallmark works by Sartre, Beauvoir, and Camus -- Critical response to French existential fiction -- Works and adaptations in other media. Selected motion pictures, plays, television productions, and recordings. Three Sartre movies and adaptations: Les Jeux sont faits, Le Mur, and Les Mains sales. Camus's L'Etranger -- French existential fiction, the nouveau roman, the Theater of the Absurd, and other literatures -- Resources for study of existential fiction.
Subject French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Existentialism in literature.
ISBN 0787651311

 
    
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