Abstract
Abstract As the twentieth century draws to a close, French literature seems in a confusing state. The lamenters most often attribute this to the absence of ‘great writers’ who, having captured the international limelight, would compensate for the deaths of, say, Albert Camus (1913-60), Andre Breton (1896-1966), Francois Mauriac (1885-1970), Andre Malraux (1910-76), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80), and Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86). Other commentators add that no literary avant-gardes have stirred up world-wide excitement as intense as that created by the surrealists before the Second World War, by the existentialists after that war, or by the practitioners of the New Novel during the 1950s and early 1960s.
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