Diaries Real and Fictional in Twentieth-Century French Writing

by Sam Ferguson

This volume is the first study of the diary in French writing across the twentieth century, as a genre which includes both fictional and non-fictional works. From the 1880s it became apparent to writers in France that their diaries--a supposedly private form of writing --would probably come to be published, strongly affecting the way their readers viewed their other published works, and their very persona as an author. More than any other, Andre Gide...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198814534
• ISBN13: 9780198814535
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"