検索キーワード： "John French" 世界文学

Julien Benda's The Treason of the Intellectuals (La Trahison des Clercs), first published in 1927, is one of the twentieth century's most influential critiques of the changing role of intellectuals in modern society. Writing in the aftermath of the First World War, Benda argued that thinkers...

People have been writing literary works in French for a thousand years, since the eleventh century. What began as a small stream of texts copied by hand has become a vast river of printed poems, dramas, novels, stories, biographies, and autobiographies in an ever-changing kaleidoscope of forms...

This “charming . . . short account of ordinary goings-on in a French café” explores love, work, loneliness, and aging as it follows the daily life of a middle-aged Parisian bartender (Lemony Snicket) Pierre is a veteran bartender in a café in the outskirts of Paris. He observes his...