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What Is Literature?: And Other Essays
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LENGTH8 hrs and 59 mins
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RELEASE DATE03-11-13
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"What is Literature?" remains the most significant critical landmark of French literature since World War II. Neither abstract nor abstruse, it is a brilliant, provocative performance by a writer more inspired than cautious.
"What is Literature?" challenges anyone who writes as if literature could be extricated from history or society. But Sartre does more than indict. He offers a definitive statement about the phenomenology of reading, and he goes on to provide a dashing example of how to write a history of literature that takes ideology and institutions into account.
This new edition of "What is Literature?" also collects three other crucial essays of Sartre's for the first time in a volume of his. The essays presenting Sartre's monthly, Les Temps modernes, and on the peculiarly French manner of nationalizing literature do much to create a context for Sartre's treatise. "Black Orpheus" has been for many years a key text for the study of black and third-world literatures.
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"Reader mispronounces words and names - annoying!"
Basically this reader would be fine for other books, but he is totally mismatched for this text. After listening for half an hour I lost count of the words and names he mispronounces. 'Phenomenology', Racine, and many others. I don't think I can listen to this. : (
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