English Words and French Authors
John Sturrock, 8 February 1990
A New History of French Literature
edited by Denis Hollier.
Harvard, 1280 pp., £39.95, October 1989,0 674 61565 4 Show More
edited by Denis Hollier.
Harvard, 1280 pp., £39.95, October 1989,
“... let the title be a warning. But then there is not much sign that the general editor, Denis Hollier, has tried to keep his authors in check, or sent round a reminder that, as the publisher’s foreword squarely promises, this is a literary history directed at the ‘general reader’. The general reader of today will have to be a whole lot ... ”
