Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Francophone World: Filiations Past and Future offers a critical reflection on some of the leading figures of twentieth-century French and Francophone literature, cinema, and philosophy. Specialists re-evaluate the historical, political, and artistic legacies of twentieth-century France and the French-speaking world, proposing new formulations of the relationships between fiction, aesthetics, and politics. This collection combines interdisciplinary sc...

L’ouvrage fournit toutes les clés pour analyser le récit d’André Breton.• Le résumé et les repères pour la lecture sont suivis de l’étude des problématiques essentielles, parmi lesquelles :– Nadja : un « document ²pris sur le vif² » ?– Le personnage de Nadja– Un manifeste du surréalisme– La quête d’identité– Le statut de la photographie

The most famous name in French literary circles from the late 1950s till his death in 1981, Roland Barthes maintained a contradictory rapport with the cinema. As a cultural critic, he warned of its surreptitious ability to lead the enthralled spectator toward an acceptance of a pre-given world. As a leftist, he understood that spectacle could be turned against itself and provoke deep questioning of that pre-given world. And as an extraordinarily sensitive human being, he relished the beaut...