Clowns and angels
Subtitle: studies in modern French literature
By: by Wallace Fowlie.
Publisher: Sheed & Ward
Published: 1943
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Table of contents: title: pt. I. The example of France: The novel. The theatre. Poetry. Gide. France. The artist.; title: pt. II. The contemporary hero: André Gide: the non-Catholic tradition. François Mauriac: the Catholic tradition. Jules Romains: the novel of good will and the world of evil. The world of Proust and Shakespeare.; title: pt. III. The poet's creation: Charles Baudelaire: the experience of religious heroism. Paul Claudel: the metaphysics of a poet. The poet and the mystic. The modern poet.