Paris-Bucharest, Bucharest-Paris : Francophone writers from Romania / edited by Anne Quinney.

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This collection of essays presents new research on the work of Romanian writers who chose French as a literary language. Romanian is itself, of course, a Romance language, and there is a long history of close Franco-Romanian ties. But given the complex and often multilingual cultural heritage of these writers-whose influences included German, Russian, and Ottoman-their contribution to French literature represents a unique hybrid form of francophonie . And yet unlike the literary production of former French colonies, this work has received little scholarly attention as a contribution to French.

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. ""Bucharest-on-the-Seine"": The Anatomy of a National Obsession; 2. The Orientalism of Anna de Noailles; 3. Before They Were Famous: Tristan Tzara, Nationhood, and Poetry; 4. The Surrealist Group of Bucharest: Collective Works, 1945-1947; 5. The Trans-cultural Journey of Benjamin Fondane; 6. French as the Language of Libre Échange in the Works of Panaït Istrati; 7. Home Is Elsewhere: Exile in the Theatre of Ionesco; 8. Traditionalism and Protochronism in the European Context.

9. Isidore Isou's Spirited Letters10. Emile Cioran and the Politics of Exile; Notes on Contributors.

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