Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature

Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature
Author: Jean Albert Bédé
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 932
Release: 1980
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780231037174

With more than 1800 critical entries on the writers and literatures of 33 languages, this work presents the entire range of modern European writing -- from the symbolist and modernist works rooted in the last decades of the nineteenth century; through the avant-garde and existentialist movement to Barthes, Blanchot, Breton, and continental thought pertinent today.