Toward a New Poetics: Contemporary Writing in France

"Timely and provocative. . . . A pioneer work both in its format and in the range of authors it presents. I came away with an enlarged sense of the French cultural scene and the vitality of the players."--Richard Macksey, author ofThe Structuralist Controversy "Constitutes a definitive poetics for the recent generation of French poets. The interviews one finds here (and Gavronsky's excellent introduction) will be as important a document of postwar French writing as Symonds'The Symbolist Movement in Literaturewas for the age of Eliot."--Michael Davidson, author ofThe San Francisco Renaissance "This is the best and only introduction to the latest and most interesting literary experimentation in France. Through thoughtful interviews with the authors and a short selection of their work we come to know them intimately and we get a good overall sense of the direction present day French Literature is taking."--Sydney LÉvy, editor ofSubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary CriticismGavronsky, Serge is the author of 'Toward a New Poetics: Contemporary Writing in France' with ISBN 9780520080713 and ISBN 0520080718.