CONCEPT OF THE AVANT-GARDE- EXPLORATIONS IN MODERNISM
Cloth
by Weightman, John
La Salle, IL: Library Press Book - Open Court, 1973. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 323 pp. DJ clipped with some light chipping. 32 essays on (mostly) French literature and ideas, most originally published in "Encounter" magazine, by the translator (with his wife) of Levi-Strauss' "The Raw and the Cooked" and "Tristes Tropiques.' Includs material on Rousseau, Gide, Artaud, Celine, Sartre, Genet, Sarraute, Robbe-Grillet, Gore Vidal, Warhol, Kenneth Tynan, much more. Sharply written. (Inventory #: 007890)