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Michel Surya

"Georges Bataille (1867-1962), philosopher, writer and founder of the influential literary review Critique, had an enormous impact on the thinking of Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard, and his ideas have been the subjects of recent debates in a wide range of disciplines." "In this biography Michel Surya enters into a complicity with Bataille's oeuvre to provide a detailed exposition of its themes as they developed against the backdrop of his life. The essence of Bataille's life and work were defined by transience and effacement, reflecting a will both to contest the impermanence of things and to confront death. His troubled childhood, his relationships with surrealism and his paradoxical position at the heart of twentieth-century French thought are enriched here with testimonies from Bataille's closest acquaintances, making this a vivid and detailed study. Revealing the context in which he worked, and the ways in which his work and ideas took shape, Surya sheds light on a figure Foucault described as 'one of the most important writers of the century.'"--BOOK JACKET.

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Jean Louis Roy

Jules Roy, écrivain, héros engagé, fut statufié de son vivant. Ses amis le nommaient Julius. Sa belle gueule captait la lumière. Aviateur glorieux, poète, conjuguant ambition et précaution, travail et faveur des astres, il était un père craint et jalousé. Le fils raconte Julius, leur vie, difficile avec lui et loin de lui; ils s'affrontent ou se renforcent l'un l'autre. Mémoire retrouvée. Jules Roy disparu laisse en creux un double.

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Hubert Nyssen

Anecdotes, réflexions sur la littérature, la critique, le milieu littéraire et journalistique et croquis d'auteurs (Nina Berberova, François Nourissier, Nicolâas Guillén, etc.). Le journal d'un éditeur de premier plan qui se demande qu'est-ce qui le fait courir de Paris à Tel Aviv, d'Arles à Amsterdam, de New York à Montréal, de La Havane à Princeton (c'est l'amour de la littérature universelle).

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Richard Greene

Cassis reveals the private side of Greene - an opinionated, charming, articulate, controversial, complex person who was always at odds with conventional wisdom. The fifty-seven excerpts included in this book contain interviews with Greene as well as personal impressions, diary entries, articles, essays, literary pieces, and recollections by friends and contemporaries that span fifty years. Topics range from Greene's conversion to Catholicism to the writer's role in society. Contributors include such well-known writers as Anthony Burgess, John Mortimer, V. S. Pritchett, Kathleen Raine, A. L. Rowse, Israel Shenker, Kenneth Tynan, and Evelyn Waugh. In this collection of essays, A. F. Cassis sheds light on the mystery of Graham Greene. Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, journalist, and playwright, Greene (1904-91) is considered one of the finest literary talents of the twentieth century. He combined his abilities as a wonderful storyteller and a master craftsman to bring respectability to the thriller genre, or what the author himself called "entertainments." In his writings, Greene expressed serious and controversial views on religious, political, and social issues.