Author : Leo Weinstein
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Subversive Tradition in French Literature: 1870-1971 by : Leo Weinstein
Download or read book The Subversive Tradition in French Literature: 1870-1971 written by Leo Weinstein and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work relates selected examples of "protest" literature to the bewildering series of social and political events in France from 1721 to 1971. Beginning with Montesquieu's Lettre persanes and ranging across the French Revolution, two Napoleonic empires, five republics, and two world wars, to the student revolt of 1968, the author uses some two dozen literary selections as protest commentary upon events with which such writings were contemporaneous.