Съдържание:
  • [1.]
  • The masters:
  • André Gide: in search of the novel
  • Marcel Proust: in search of lost time
  • [2.]
  • Brave new world:
  • Georges Duhamel and Jules Romain: "men of good will"
  • Roger Martin de Gard: "the Corneille of the bourgeois novel"
  • Louis Aragon's "real world"
  • Marcel Aymé: epilogue
  • [3.]
  • Private worlds:
  • Julien Green
  • Henri Bosco
  • Jean Giono
  • François Mauriac
  • Georges Bernanos
  • [4.]
  • Escapes and escapades:
  • The surrealist anti-novel
  • Jean Cocteau: a modern Daedalus
  • Jean Giraudoux's elusive Garden of Eden
  • Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Ulysses again
  • Raymond Queneau: the Sunday of life
  • [5.]
  • Return to man:
  • André Malraux: maker of myths
  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: knight-errant
  • Jean-Paul Sartre: the search for identity
  • Albert Camus: the two sides of the coin
  • [6.]
  • An end and some beginnings.