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SURREALISM AND COMMUNISM: The Early Years
Alan Rose
Preface by Pierre Naville
"Tnnsforrn the world'" said Marx. "Change life'" said Rirnbaud. The Surrealists insisted
that these two slogans could be joined. To that end, they tried to wed their poetic revolt
to the French Communist Party and the political forces for change. This book examines
the early relationship between Surrealism and Communism, from the Dada period up to
the moment when leaders of the Surrealist group joined the French Communist Party.
It
focuses on the liaison between the Surrealists and the Marxist intellectuals in the "Clartc"
group. 1991 XV, 343 pp.
ISBN 0-8204-1384-4 hardcover $49.95
FASCISM AND EUROPEAN LITERATURE
FASCHISMUS UNO EUROPAEISCHE L1TERATUR
Edited by Stein Ugelvik Larsen and Beatrice Sandberg with Ronald Speirs
The studies in this volume - some of which are written in German - combine two areas
of research, literary history and social science, in an investigation of the impact of fascism
on the various national literatures in Europe. Only rarely is literature shown to record
historical processes in a straightforward documentary manner. Usually it is the manner of
literary representation, and not merely its subject matter, that reveals the imprint of
historical experience. 1991 459 pp.
ISBN 3-261-04379-2 paperback $62.80
OUR VOICES, OURSELVES
Women Writing for the French Theater
Celita Lamar
The International Year of the Woman, 1975, signaled the beginning of a new era in
theatrical expression for women in France. This book explores the circumstances
surrounding the sudden burgeoning of feminine - and feminist - interest in the theater.
Some of the authors introduced here appear in print for the first time in the United States.
Relying on both published and unpublished materials, as well as on interviews with many
of the authors, this study seeks to stimulate interest in theatrical productions written, staged
or directed by women. 1991 XIV, 213 pp.
ISBN 0-8204-149909 hardcover $40.95
DESIRE AND THE DEVIL
Demonic Contracts in French and European Literature
Carlo Testa
Exploring the vast terrain covered in Continental European literature after the demise of
"orthodox" pacts, Desire and the Devil highlights the conceptual dialectic of evil and its
discontents, and cohesively traces a number of fundamental modern "poetics of
unorthodoxy" (Goethe, Balzac, Haubert, Bulgakov, Nerval). The book asks - and answers
- the ultimate question as to "what it means to give oneself over to Satan" (Baudelaire) in
teday's "post-systematic world." 1991 VIII, 196 pp.
ISBN 0-8204-1439-5 hardcover $39.95
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