ROLAND BARTHES
....
:
CRITICAL 'ESSAYS
of humanist
literature from'
translated
by
R\chard Howard ';
the
wo~ks ~f
Montaigne and of
absurdist literature
taken from Dostoevsky
and Flaubert are spring-
"Literary essays by 'the major figure in
criticism in France' and 'one of the
velY few literalY critics in any
language of whom it can be said
tha.t he has never written a
bad or uninteresting page.' "
boards for a clear-cut com–
parison of what has sometimes
been labeled as 'old' humanist
and 'new' 'absurdist fiction. A
learned, well-written criticism of
the two genres as reflected in writings
by Beckett, Camus, Eliot, Forster, Gide,
and others."
The Booklist
HUMANISM AND THE ABSURD
IN THE MODERN NOVEL
New York Times
Book Review
"A Selection of
Noteworthy
Titles"
$6.25
by NAOMI LEBOWITZ
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS
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