French novels, plays, poems and short stories, however temporally or culturally distant from us, continue to be incarnated and reincarnated on cinema screens ac

French novels, plays, poems and short stories, however temporally or culturally distant from us, continue to be incarnated and reincarnated on cinema screens ac

The most comprehensive history of literature written in French ever produced in English.

This magnificent volume provides a complete history of the literature of France from its origins to the present day, taking us beyond traditional definitions of

It can be argued that cinema was created in France by Louis Lumière in 1895 with the invention of the cinématographe, the first true motion-picture camera and