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...

Jacques Pothier

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Littérature

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

Yannick Séité

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Can one « jazz » the French language ?

The preface to Paul Morand’s collection Magie noire (1929) has been the subject of much discussion,...

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...

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...