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Just Words: Moralism and Metalanguage in Twentieth-Century French Fiction.(Review)
The Modern Language Review
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January 1, 1999|
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Just Words: Moralism and Metalanguage in Twentieth-Century French Fiction. By ROBERT W. GREENE. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1993. 188 pp.
If the twin towers of twentieth-century French literature are existentialist thought and the revaluation of language in its relation to reality and the human consciousness, then where did it all begin? Robert Greene champions Chamfort, the 'moralist of the Revolution', whose historically minded pen overwrote the universalism of his predecessors, Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld, and La Bruyere. Indeed, Beckett so ...
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