Cécile Cottenet

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Literary Agents

Over the course of the 20th century, literary agents have maintained an important role in the...

Jacques Pothier

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William Faulkner, écrivain baroque de la Méditerranée américaine

Faulkner est au carrefour de plusieurs histoires littéraires mais est aussi l'inspirateur de nombreux...

Jacques Pothier

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Littérature

Les littératures atlantiques ont été le véhicule privilégié de l'histoire culturelle du Monde...

David Bellos

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Romain Gary: How to Be Someone Else

The novelist Romain Gary had two connected but quite distinct literary careers, in two languages and...

Marc Lapprand

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Boris Vian, Inventor of America

During his short life, Boris Vian introduced American culture to France in his two favorite forms:...

Laurence Cossu-Beaumont

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Blanche and Alfred Knopf: Circulating Transatlantic Literature

In 1915, the Knopfs founded a publishing company focusing on translations of contemporary European...

Charlotte Servel

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Soupault and USA: Cinema and Surrealist Poetry in the Roaring Twenties

In the early 1920s, French Surrealist Philippe Soupault saw in American film a new form of modernity...