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This article takes the american controversy on the death of the novel, in the sixties, as an example of a cultural crisis. Especially because this death of the novel controversy is not an exceptional event, but one in a series of deaths, which have touched not only a literary genre, but also God, Man, the author, music, art, history, ideology, and more recently the book and print culture. To better understand how this last crisis, the end of books, is a repetition of the death of the novel controversy, I will describe both as a manifestation of the same apocalyptic imagination, which invariably transforms a transition into a crisis bringing about an end.
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AbstractAlthough such intellectuals as Paulhan and Steiner considered Lucien Rebatet's Les deux étendards to be a great novel, both the author and his works continue to be marginalized. This is because Rebatet, an aesthete and prominent pre-War cinema critic, was also a collaborationist journalist and the author of a vigorously pro-Nazi, antisemitic pamphlet, Les décombres. His work Les deux étendards, which is an extraordinary love story, is also a novel of initiation, in which the Nietzschian rejection of Christianity reveals a genuine mystery of Salvation that participates in the modern totalitarian imagination.
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Because of obvious critical decompartmentalization and dissemination,it is difficult to trace the outlines of Quebec research ontwentieth-century French literature. It appears, however, that researchin Quebec presents core themes or “tangents”, which emergefrom a careful study of researchers' backgrounds, the issues theychoose to examine, their key collaborations, and the studies and bodiesof work that attract their attention. Thus, while problematizing therelevance of using the twentieth century as a measure ofinterdisciplinarity, this article proposes a study, both meticulous andsubjective, of research in Quebec with the aim of establishing thepoints of convergence or demarcation that can better define itsspecific contribution. The observation of a very clear division between“twentieth-century literature” and“contemporary” literature (1980 to the present) allows us,moreover, to compare and contrast not only “two” readingsof the twentieth century, but also “two” relativelydistinct literatures, each with its own critical issues.