Impromptu Memory: Interview with Claudel (french Literature and Art Interview Series)
by (france) Paul Claudel Et Al.
About This Novel
Paul Claudel, late French Symbolist poet, playwright, diplomat, and academician of the French Academy. As a poet, Paul Claudel played an important role in the French poetry world; as a playwright, his dramatic works were unique; as a diplomat, he worked in China for fourteen years. Claudel's complex multiple identities made his life and art more colorful. In the interview with Jean Amrouche, Claudel revealed his beliefs, his works, his diplomatic career, especially his encounter with China, and his special insights into literature, including his emotional changes towards Shakespeare, Racine and Stendhal, the important influence of Rimbaud and Mallarmé on him, and his dislike of Gide and Proust...
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