From: World Literature Today | Date: January 1, 1997| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1997 University of Oklahoma. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Philippe Forest has provided us with an absorbing account of one of the more interesting literary and critical ventures of postwar France: the birth, twenty-year reign, and demise of the Parisian journal Tel Quel. It is of course no accident that Tel Quel's lifespan encompasses the two decades of the postwar period during which France's literary and cultural prestige, particularly in the domain of critical theory, was (rightly or wrongly) unmatched. Indeed, from the midsixties on, one could argue that Tel Quel played an active role in actually shaping the critical debates of those ...