OXFORD BOOKS
OF EXCEPTIONAL INTEREST
PAGES FROM THE GONCOURT JOURNAL
Edited, translated, and introduced by ROBERT BALDICK. This newly
translated selection from one of the greatest and most celebrated diaries
in the world is taken from the first publication in France of the com–
plete
Journal,
begun in 1956 and concluded three years later. Baldick's
illuminating introduction casts much fascinating light on the relation
of the
Journal
to the Goncourts' life, and on the violent opposition it
aroused among contemporaries.
Frontispiece;
8
halftones.
$8.75
THE NOVELIST AS PHILOSOPHER
Studies
in
French Fiction 1935-1960
Edited by JOHN CRUICKSHANK. The essays gathered here all dis–
cuss novels that throw light on the relationship between philosophy and
literature. The author has written an introduction and the essay on
Camus; the other essays are by Ernest Beaumont on Bemanos, Cecil
Jenkins on Andre Malraux, Martin Esslin on Raymond Queneau and
Samuel Beckett, John Weightman on Sartre and Robbe-Grillet, Geoffrey
Hartman on Maurice Blanchot, Maurice Cranston on Simone de Beau–
voir, and Carlos Lynes on Jean Cayrol.
$5.00
THE LIVE THEATRE
An Introduction to the History and Practice of the Stage
By HUGH HUNT. A former producer and director of the Bristol and
London Old Vic companies gives an expert and inspiring introduction
to the full pageant of the theatre. He traces its history in intriguing
detail, and concludes with a survey of its present-day practice and op–
portunities for developing in the future. 12
pages of half-tones.
$5.75
STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF
SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY
By J. M. MACKINTOSH. This book examines the major policy de–
cisions of the U.S.S.R. made since 1944, the year which saw the be–
ginnings of the Soviet bloc as we know it today. T he author shows which
types of decisions are likely to be abandoned as unfruitful, and which
are fundamental to Soviet policy and of both immediate and long–
range concern to the Western world.
$8.00
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