La Suisse et la Savoie de Valery Larbaud.(Book Review)

The Modern Language Review | July 1, 2002| | Copyright

La Suisse et la Savoie de Valery Larbaud. By BERNARD-DOMINIQUE BAJON. Geneve: Slatkine. 1999. 486 pp. 34.76 [euro].

Titles on Valery Larbaud typically contain the conjunction 'et'. This 1999 study bags for research one of the few countries not yet dealt with. Valery. Larbaud illustrates the dilemma set out by Barthes in his 1960 essay 'Ecrivains et Ecrivants'. The clear distinction between the 'ecrivain-homme d'affaires', guardian of the (literary) language and the ordinary writer 'l'ecrivant' has become increasingly blurred. If Valery Larbaud embodies for us the notion ...

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