Robert Desnos and the Play of Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9781433143014 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 176 str.

Charles A. Nunley

Opis

Robert Desnos remains celebrated today as one of France's most famous Surrealist artists and as a hero and martyr of the French Resistance. The book includes the full text of Desnos's eleven articles for Voila, never previously collected, with accompanying English translation.

Spis treści

Introduction - Reportage and the Re-Enchantment of Actualité: Robert Desnos at Voilà (1933-1935) - Radio and the Cultivation of the Popular in Time of War: Good Evening, Ladies and Gentlemen (1944) - English Translation of the Articles by Robert Desnos in Voilà (1933-1935) - Full French Text of the Articles by Robert Desnos in Voilà (1933-1935) - Index.

O autorze

Charles A. Nunley is Professor of French at Middlebury College. He completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University, specializing in French literature of the interwar and World War II periods. His work has been supported by grants from the American Philosophical Society and National Endowment for the Humanities.