[email protected] Copyright © 2024 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2024 Proust interwar reception politics and literature À la recherche du temps perdu When Proust died in 1922, his novel lay in fragments. Resolutely incomplete, its stray sections and variants were...

... ideological and literary trajectory in the interwar years, Drieu defined the true prophet as a writer of decadence, one compelled to narrate and embody the decline of the nation. By assuming this burden, the writer-prophet in turn becomes doomed to be misunderstood or ignored by his decadent contemporaries...

...Niels Buch Leander Copyright © 2008 The Trustees of Columbia University 2008 Niels Buch Leander THE COLONIAL METROPOLIS AND ITS ARTISTIC ADVENTURE: CONRAD, CONGO, AND THE NOUVELLE REVUE FRAN<:AISE To Denis de Rougemont, critic at the Nouvelle Revue Franr;aise, interwar Paris was nothing less...

... of recognizable language, but which at the same time engenders and maintains a mode of communication beyond conventional linguistic forms. Artaud's Alice thus appears to be a much more receptive interlocutor than Carroll's Alice, who, in her effort to make sense of the idiosyncratic characters she meets...

...; Daniel J. Sherman, The Construction of Memory in Interwar France (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999). 3. Jean-Claude Lebrun, Jean Rouaud (Monaco: Editions du Rocher, 1996). 4. "Jean Rouaud's Family History: Rebuilding a War Memorial," Romance Studies, 30 (1997), 73-83. The Romanic...