Description: The definitive chronicle of the origins of French avant-garde literature and art, Roger Shattuck's classic portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomplishment and laid the groundwork for Dadaism and Surrealism. Shattuck focuses on the careers of Alfred Jarry, Henri Rousseau, Erik Satie, and Guillaume Apollinaire, using the quartet as window into the era as he exploring a culture whose influence is at the very foundation of modern art. Roger Shattuck was a scholar, writer and literary critic, best known for his studies on French literature, culture, and Proust. He was born in 1923, received his B.A. at Yale, and was appointed to the Society of Fellows at Harvard. He has been a recipient of both a Fulbright and a Guggenheim grant. He taught at Harvard, the University of Texas, the University of Virginia and Boston University, from which he retired in 1997. He is the author of several books of literary criticism as well as several definitive texts on Proust. His biography of Proust won the National Book Award in 1975. Shattuck died in 2005.
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EAN: 9780394704159
UPC: 9780394704159
ISBN: 9780394704159
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Book Title: Banquet Years : the Origins of the Avantgarde in France, 1885 to World War I
Number of Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 1968
Topic: Individual Artists / General, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), European / French, Europe / France, Modern / 20th Century, Composers & Musicians, History & Surveys / Modern
Item Height: 1 in
Features: Revised
Genre: Literary Criticism, Art, Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 10.7 Oz
Author: Roger Shattuck
Item Length: 7.2 in
Item Width: 4.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
