From the Left Bank

Reflections on the Modern French Theater and Novel

318 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

From the Left Bank chronicles the intimate, behind-the-scenes encounters of an American Francophile and the stars of the French Avant Garde theater and literary worlds. It reflects the author's extensive, first-hand experience of the modern French theater and with those artists who wrote and staged the work that has revolutionized the way we think of theater. The book contains a distillation of Bishop's best original writings on such pivotal figures as Jean Cocteau, Jean-Louis Barrault, Eugne Ionesco, Jean Genet, Jean-Paul Sartre, Samuel Beckett, and Albert Camus in theater and Claude Simon, Robert Pinget, Philippe Sollers, and Alain Robbe-Grillet in fiction. Bishop knew these creative artists personally, and his insightful analyses provide an informative, entertaining insider's look at the development and workings of the French Avant Garde.

• Reihe: NYU Press
• ISBN: 9780814712603
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.1997
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: NYU Press - IPS
• Herausgegeben von: Tom Bishop