The cultural politics of Tel quel
Subtitle: literature and the left in the wake of engagement
By: Danielle Marx-Scouras.
Series: Penn State studies in Romance literatures
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Tel quel.; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- France.; France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Description: Founded in 1960 by a group of relatively unknown young writers, Tel Quel quickly became one of the most influential literary journals and controversial intellectual movements in France.

The book elucidates the complexities of French intellectual life and the role played by Tel Quel in the evolution of intellectual thought and writing in the 1960s and 1970s. Tel Quel's cultural politics have been fashioned as much by the unpredictable historical changes of the post-World War II and Cold War era as they have by the advances in literary studies, semiotics, philosophy, and psychoanalysis during this period.

The journal ceased publication in 1982, shortly before the dissolution of Marxism-Communism marked by the demolition of the Berlin Wall, the reunification of Europe, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Marx-Scouras ultimately finds in its cultural venture some significant parting thoughts on a vigorous period of European literary and intellectual history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-243) and index.