- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword to the Beauvoir Series
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Introduction
- The Useless Mouths
- Introduction
- It’s Shakespeare they Don’t Like
- The Novel and the Theater
- An American Renaissance in France
- New Heroes for Old
- Introduction
- Existentialist Theater
- Introduction
- A Story I Used to Tell Myself
- Introduction
- Preface To <i>La Bâtarde</i> by Violette Leduc
- Introduction
- What Can Literature Do?
- Introduction
- Misunderstanding in Moscow
- Introduction
- My Experience as a Writer
- Introduction
- Introduction to <i>Bluebeard and Other Fairy Tales</i>
- Preface to <i>James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years</i>
- Preface To <i>Amélie 1</i>
- Foreword to <i>History: A Novel</i>
- Introduction
- Notes for a Novel
- Contributors
- Index
- Books in the Beauvoir Series
- Production Credits
An American Renaissance in France
An American Renaissance in France
- Chapter:
- (p.107) An American Renaissance in France
- Source:
- The Useless Mouths and Other Literary Writings
- Author(s):
Simone de Beauvoir
Janella D. Moy
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
One of the significant events in French literature during the period between the two wars was the discovery of American literature.1 I remember with what fervor the initiated, those who could read English, passed along the first books of Dos Passos, Hemingway and Faulkner....
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword to the Beauvoir Series
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Introduction
- The Useless Mouths
- Introduction
- It’s Shakespeare they Don’t Like
- The Novel and the Theater
- An American Renaissance in France
- New Heroes for Old
- Introduction
- Existentialist Theater
- Introduction
- A Story I Used to Tell Myself
- Introduction
- Preface To <i>La Bâtarde</i> by Violette Leduc
- Introduction
- What Can Literature Do?
- Introduction
- Misunderstanding in Moscow
- Introduction
- My Experience as a Writer
- Introduction
- Introduction to <i>Bluebeard and Other Fairy Tales</i>
- Preface to <i>James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years</i>
- Preface To <i>Amélie 1</i>
- Foreword to <i>History: A Novel</i>
- Introduction
- Notes for a Novel
- Contributors
- Index
- Books in the Beauvoir Series
- Production Credits