What is Literature?What is writing? Why does one write? For whom? In this book Sartre examines the role of the writer in society with immense vigour and erudition. |
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... Claude Mauriac than to the bitter revolt of the first surrealism . Here , for example , are a few lines of M. Pastoureau : " The political experiment of surrealism which has caused it to revolve round the Communist Party for some ten ...
... Claude Mauriac than to the bitter revolt of the first surrealism . Here , for example , are a few lines of M. Pastoureau : " The political experiment of surrealism which has caused it to revolve round the Communist Party for some ten ...
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