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Author Brombert, Victor, 1923-

Title The intellectual hero; studies in the French novel, 1880-1955.

Publication Info. Philadelphia : Lippincott [1961]

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  843.9 B78    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  843.09 BROMBERT    Check Shelf
Edition [First edition].
Description 255 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliography.
Contents Introduction -- Toward a portrait of the French intellectual -- Part I: from Pathos to stature. Valles and the Pathos of rebellion -- Bourget and the guilt of the teacher -- Emile Zola and Anatole France: the lay apostle and the lay saint -- Martin du Gard's Jean Barois and the challenge of history -- Louis Guilloux and the myth of cripure -- Part II: the tragic impasse. 1930-1950: the age of guilt -- Malraux: passion and intellect -- Sartre and the existentialist novel: the intellectual as "impossible" hero -- The fifties: the anti-intellectual reaction.
Subject French literature -- History and criticism.
Intellectuals in literature.
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