Title: From the Left Bank
First published: January 1, 1996
Description: The work reflects the author's extensive and first-hand experience with the modern French theater and with those artists who have written and staged for it and whose work has revolutionized the way we think of "theater.".

The book contains a distillation of Bishop's best original writings on such pivotal figures as Beckett, Cocteau, Jean-Louis Barrault, Ionesco, Jean Genet, Sartre, and Camus in theater and Alain Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Robert Pinget, and Philippe Sollers in fiction. Bishop knew these creative artists, and his insightful analyses provide an informative and entertaining insider's look at the development and workings of the avant-garde that is both fascinating and unique.
Subjects: Experimental fiction, French, French Experimental fiction, French drama, French fiction, History and criticism, Toneel, French, Romans, Frans, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, Experimental fiction, history and criticism, French drama, history and criticism, French fiction, history and criticism
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PQ556 .B57 1997