Title: Defying gravity
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Criticism, Intellectual life, Criticism and interpretation, History, France, intellectual life, France, history, 20th century
Places: France
People: Jean Paulhan (1884-1968)
Time periods: 20th century