Paul Valéry: masters and friends -- Jacques Maritain: Medieval modernism -- Camus as journalist -- André Malraux: a hero of his time -- Yves Bonnefoy: notes of an admirer -- Racine and anti-semitism -- Nicola Chiaromonte: the ethics of politics -- French intellectuals between the wars -- Sartre: an existentialist in the underworld -- Ernst Juenger: an impenitent Prussian -- The "double life" of Gottfried Benn -- Erich Kahler and the quest for a human absolute -- Eliade, Cioran, Ionesco: the treason of the intellectuals -- Eliot's legacy -- The novel in wonderland -- R.P. Blackmur's texts: an introduction -- Ian Watt: a tribute -- Gary Saul Morson's narrative and freedom -- Lilian Furst and the art of literary realism
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Criticism-- 20th century
Literature and society-- History-- 20th century
Literature, Modern-- 20th century-- History and criticism