MODERN
FRENCH
THEATRE
JACQUES
GUICHARNAUD,
with
June Beckelman,
reviews the
revolutionary theatre of Gi–
raudoux, Cocteau, Claudel,
Montherlant, Anouilh, Sala–
crou, Sartre, Camus, Ionesco,
and Beckett-with a chapter
on the modern farce.
"No better aid
to
this pTocess
of gaining a true understand–
ing of the French point of
view in the theatre is
to
be
found anywhere else in Eng–
lish."-Harold Clurman, New
York Times
"Definitely the best study of
French theatre published in
America since .
..
World War
II.-George Freedley, Theatre
Arts
"Far and away the best Ix>ok
on the modern French thea–
tre."-Library Journal
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CONTRIBUTORS
ROBERT GREER COHN, found-
ing editor of Yale French Studies,
is Associate Professor of French
at Stanford University. He is the
author of The Writer's Way in
France, published by the Univer–
sity of Pennsylvania Press.
ANNE SEXTON is a young poet
who has just been elected to
The Society of Scholars at The
Radcliffe Institute For Indepen–
dent Study. She is presently at
work on a second book of poems;
her first, To Bedlam and Part
Way Back was brought out
by
Houghton Mifflin in 1960.
DON W. KLEINE is a member of
the English Department of Cor–
nell University. He has published
in The Nation, Accent, and other
magazines. This is his first appear–
ance in Partisan Review.
ROBERT BRUSTEIN, an assistant
professor at Columbia Univer–
sity, holds a Guggenheim Fel–
lowship for this year. He is at
work on a book, The Theatre of
Revolt, which Atlantic, Little
Brown will publish.
THALIA SELZ, who is appearing
in Partisan Review for the first
time, has published short stories
in The Virginia Quarterly Review
and Chicago Review. She is now
writing a novel.
ROBERT GOLDWATER, director
of the Museum of Primitive Art,
teaches the history of modem
art at New York University's In–
stitute of Fine Arts.
