{"product_id":"progress-in-love-on-the-slow-side-french-modernist-library-9780803237056","title":"Progress in Love on the Slow Side (French Modernist Library)","description":"\u003cp\u003eJean Paulhan (18841968) is renowned in France both for his unrivaled skill as an editor and for his own subtle yet incisive writings. Paulhan directed the Nouvelle Revue Franaise for thirty years  helping to make it into the foremost literary journal of his generation. Many of the most celebrated French writers of the periodArtaud  Bataille  Blanchot  Caillois  Camus  Giono  and Ponge  to name only a fewowe their rise to literary prominence in large part to Paulhans rare vision  insightful criticism  and unfailing support. Although best known for his theoretical writings of the 1940s and 1950s  Paulhan established his reputation as a writer with his short fictional tales  or rcits  composed during or just after World War I. Many of them have the war as their backdrop and are autobiographical in origin  evoking Paulhans time in Madagascar  his brush with death while suffering from pneumonia  and his awkward love life. More than the subject matter  it is the precise  restrained lyricism of the prose  and Paulhans attentiveness to the quirks and subtle twists of language  that make these stories so remarkable for their time. This book contains a selection of five of the best-known rcits: Progress in Love on the Slow Side  The Severe Recovery  The Crossed Bridge  Aytre Gets Out of the Habit  and Lalie. Maurice Blanchots tribute to Paulhan  \"The Ease of Dying \" is also included. In 1945 Paulhan received the Grand Prix de Litterature and in 1951 the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris; he was elected to the Academie Franaise in 1965.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45792602947637,"sku":"ByrdShop_0803237057","price":239.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780803237056.jpg?v=1784755194","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/progress-in-love-on-the-slow-side-french-modernist-library-9780803237056","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}