Politics and literature
Subtitle: the case of Maurice Blanchot
By: Deborah M. Hess.
Series: Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures ;; vol. 74
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Blanchot, Maurice -- Political and social views.; Politics and literature -- France -- History -- 20th century.; France -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Description: The role of politics in literary creation and interpretation is discussed for the French intellectual tradition and the critical period in France from 1931 to 1948. Maurice Blanchot's early fiction is analyzed as a symbolic expression of its sociopolitical context. He portrays the plight of the Jewish people and of the French nation in his fiction published between 1936 and 1949.

Politics and Literature offers a model for critical interpretation that takes into account complexity, process, and the sociopolitical context of the literary text.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-272).