Critic of Civilization: Georges Duhamel and His Writings

By L.Clark Keating

Book Overview

As one of the outstanding minds of France, the career of George Duhamel reflects the universal range of his interests. A physician turned poet, playwright, novelist, publicist, critic, and world traveler, Duhamel for half a century has sought as a liberal humanist to defend the moral and aesthetic values of Western civilization against the encroachment of a dehumanizing machine age. Duhamel first achieved fame as a writer with two eloquent outcries against war in Vie des Martyrs and Civilisatio

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081315295X
• ISBN13: 9780813152950
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher