From Choice to Resistance (A View of 20th Century French Literary History)

Author: Liu Mingjiu
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: France is a nation that cherishes individual freedom, and French literature adheres to the highest principle of pursuing the freedom of creative individuality. As a result, most new schools of thought and artistic styles in the world often originate from there. The field of French literature has always been a free and competitive arena for various styles, especially in the 20th century, which was more conducive to individual development. Therefore, in 20th-century French literature, extraordinary and independent talents are abundant. For the history of literature, while there is always a need to categorize and summarize, many writers in 21st-century French literature are difficult to classify. The tenth part of this book includes some writers who are hard to fit into fixed categories. The reason they are difficult to classify lies in the uniqueness and bold expression of their creative individuality. Ironically, this very trait has become their common point, especially that they all boldly elevate their personal individuality, spirit, and state into literature as a distinctive feature. From Louis Aragon, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Colette to Jean Genet, Marguerite Duras, and Fran?oise Sagan, whose works do not feature an extremely prominent, capitalized "I"? This allows us, for the sake of convenience, to tentatively group them as "talents who boldly express their self-individuality."