Defying gravity
Subtitle: Jean Paulhan's interventions in twentieth-century French intellectual history
By: Michael Syrotinski.
Series: SUNY series, the margins of literature
Publisher: State University of New York Press; State Univ of New York Pr
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Paulhan, Jean, -- 1884-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Criticism -- History -- 20th century.; France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Description: Defying Gravity is a major reassessment of the work of Jean Paulhan within the context of his own times, as well as in the light of contemporary debates in literary theory. Best known for his long-serving editorship of the influential Parisian literary review, La Nouvelle Revue Francaise, Paulhan is now widely acknowledged as one of the most central yet least understood figures of twentieth-century French intellectual and literary history.

Syrotinski's study admirably performs the dual purpose of introducing a genuinely innovative and distinctive writer to a general anglophone readership, while engaging critically with his texts and their reception.
Notes: Bibliog.: index.