Influential author of highly unconventional crime fiction, screenwriter, and occasional film director, Sbastien Japrisot was one of those rare contemporary writers in France able to establish an international reputation for himself. Although Japrisot's novels in particular continue to be read and studied across the world, this volume is the first ever academic study of Japrisot's work in the fields of both literature and cinema. Through a combination of thematic and text-specific studies, this volume takes in, and examines the legacy of, Japrisot's work from his youthful writings under his...
Influential author of highly unconventional crime fiction, screenwriter, and occasional film director, Sbastien Japrisot was one of those rare contemp...
This book studies travel writing produced by French authors between the two World Wars following visits to authoritarian regimes in Europe and the USSR. It sheds new light on the phenomenon of French political travel in this period by considering the well-documented appeal of Soviet communism for French intellectuals alongside their interest in other radical regimes which have been much less studied: fascist Italy, the Iberian dictatorships and Nazi Germany. Through analyses of the travel writing produced as a result of such visits, the book gauges the appeal of these forms of...
This book studies travel writing produced by French authors between the two World Wars following visits to authoritarian regimes in Europe and the ...
