Rhine Crossings
Subtitle: France And Germany in Love And War
Contributors: Aminia M. Brueggemann (Editor); Peter Schulman (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: June 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780791464380
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Social Sciences; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; German; Western Europe - General; Western Continental Europe; European - French; European - German; French and German; German and French; Literature, Comparative; National characteristics, German, in literature
First sentence: Francois Truffaut's famous film, Jules et Jim, which depicts a fiery love triangle between a young French writer, a German poet, and a seductive yet troubled femme fatale from the belle epoque until 1933, captures the volatile dynamic that has characterized the French-German symbiosis throughout many centuries.