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Montherlant, Henri De - äNrēˈ də môNtĕrläNˈ, 1896–1972, French writer. His novels are decadent and egotistical and glorify force and masculinity. Montherlant fought in World War I and was later an athlete and a bullfighter. Among his novels are Les Bestiaires (1926, tr. The Bullfighters, 1927), Les Célibataires (1934, tr. The |
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The Master of Santiago: And Four Other Plays » Read Nowby Henry de Montherlant. 342 pgs.
Collections: Literature, Entire Library...THE FRENCH, WITH A PREFACE, BY Jonathan Griffin Henry de Montherlant THE MASTER OF SANTIAGO AND FOUR OTHER...PAGE 275 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON Henry de Montherlant PAGE 337...
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The French Theater since 1930: Six Contemporary Full-Length Plays ("La Reine Morte" by Henry de Montherlant begins on p. 201) » Read Nowby Oreste F. Pucciani. 408 pgs.
Collections: Literature, Entire Library...HENRY DE MONTHERLANT LA REINE MORTE...Camus, Simone de Beauvoir...discussed. Montherlant and Mauriac...Claudel and Henry Bernstein...morte of Montherlant, Renaud...Le...
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The Search for Modern Tragedy: Aesthetic Fascism in Italy and France (Chap. Five "Aesthetic Fascism and French Modern Tragedy under the German Occupation: Montherlant and Anouilh") » Read Nowby Mary Ann Frese Witt. 259 pgs.
In this text, Witt explores the work of a group of European writers and artists who came to fascism by way of aesthetics. Her study of the relationship between fascism and modern tragedy encompasses theoretical writing on tragedy.
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Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature: From Loti to Genet (Chap. Three "Claiming Cultural Dissidence: The Case of Montherlant's La Rose de Sable") » Read Nowby Edward J. Hughes. 209 pgs.
Collections: Literature, Entire LibraryHughes explores how cultural centers require the peripheral, the outlawed, and the deviant in order to define and bolster themselves. He analyzes the hierarchies of cultural value that inform the work of six modern French writers: the exoticist Pierre Loti; Paul Gauguin, whose Noa Noa enacts...
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The Contemporary French Theatre: The Flight from Naturalism (1958) (Chap. 10 "Henry de Montherlant") » Read Nowby Joseph Chiari. 242 pgs.
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Dionysus in Paris: Guide to Contemporary French Theater (1960) ("Montherlant (1896-)" begins on p. 89) » Read Nowby Wallace Fowlie. 320 pgs.
Collections: Literature, Entire Library...plays of Anouilh, Camus, Claudel, Montherlant, Cocteau. Barrault has said that for...theater. As director of the new Theatre de France he has new opportunity for...
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Encyclopedia of the Essay ("Montherlant, Henry de: French, 1896-1972" begins on p. 574) » Read Nowby Tracy Chevalier. 1004 pgs.
Collections: Literature, Entire LibraryThe Encyclopedia of the Essay is the first reference work entirely devoted to the essay as a genre.Coverage begins with Montaigne, the first essayist, and stretches forward to Addison and Steele, The Spectator and The Tatler, Marivaux, William Hazlitt, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Robert Musil, Theodor...
