1st Edition
Aeneas Takes the Metro The Presence of Virgil in Twentieth-century French Literature
By Fiona Cox
Copyright 1999
240 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study traces Virgil's journey through twentieth-century France by examining his profile in the works of Gide, Aragon, Valery, Pagnol, Klossowski, Butor, Simon and Pinget, and by looking at how their Virgilian appropriations complement and modify current readings of the "Aeneid" and other works. His presence in these works provides insights not only into modern French culture but into the... Read more
The Presence of the Past: Fama and Fata in the Shield of Aeneas; Intertextual Virgil; French Virgilian Criticism and the Importance of Broch; Arma virumque cano: Songs of War; The French Bucoliasts; Translating the Aetieid to the Nouveau Roman: Pierre Klossowski’s Translation; A Modern-Day Aeneas: Virgil’s Journey through Butor’s ha Modification; ‘La Bataille de la phrase’ : Virgil in the Novels of Claude Simon; The Good Shepherd: Virgil in the Novels of Robert Pinget, Conclusion
Biography
Fiona Cox
