Péguy (Litterature) (French Edition)
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Literature and revolution were joined in an explosion of nihilistic gesture, black humour , and outrageous erotic transgression, engendering new forms of perception and expression. Paris again became a pole of attraction for European intellectuals, not least the Anglo-Irish and Anglo-American high priests of modernism: James Joyce , T.
Eliot , and William Carlos Williams. Not all French writers shared the Surrealist impulse to revolt. The s saw a withdrawal into various forms of escapism: In the s she produced autobiographical writings, including autobiographical fictions that, almost uniquely, provided a female perspective on feminine experience in a male-centred age. From the mids onward, the pressure of international economic competition and the growing self-awareness and organization of the working class, accompanied by the increasing elaboration and spread of the polarized ideologies of communism and fascism, often polarized writers as well.
Many writers joined the fray. They give a dark account of the machinery of repressive authoritarianism and the operations of capitalist ambition in war and peace, and across continents. Newspapers such as Commune , which advocated that literature should serve the cause of working-class liberation, were influential. A few isolated writers dealt with political struggles outside the European arena. Few novels were in fact untouched by the political challenge, but many were more concerned with other preoccupations. The Surrealists explored the romance of the modern city.
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Nadja , a distinctive contribution to the tradition that joins the beckoning enigma of a dream woman as a figure of erotic desire and the fascination of Paris. Saint-John Perse produced what he himself described as a modern epic of interior journey: They fostered a literary and poetic theatre, developing high standards of acting, production, and stage design; and they tried less successfully to reach out beyond the traditional middle-class audience. The plays produced for this theatre—by Jean Cocteau , Jean Giraudoux , Armand Salacrou, and the early Jean Anouilh —have aged less well than the innovations in staging.
Antonin Artaud began to formulate his Theatre of Cruelty , which would use stage resources enriched by Japanese Noh theatre and the Balinese Theatre in Paris in , replacing words by spectacle, to expose audiences to the realities of repressive power structures from which they were muffled by habit in their everyday lives.
Another major figure still awaiting full recognition was Paul Claudel. Former anarchist turned religious convert, the most celebrated poet of the Roman Catholic revival had from the start of the century been turning the traditionalist cult of suffering, and its symbols and myths , into potentially great drama.
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