Five short stories by a French essayist (1884-1968).

Defying Gravity is a major reassessment of the work of Jean Paulhan within the context of his own times, as well as in the light of contemporary debates in lite

Modernity has long been equated with motion, travel, and change, from Marx?s critical diagnoses of economic instability to the Futurists? glorification of speed

What Freud did for dreams, André Breton (1896–1966) does for despair: in its distortions he finds the marvelous, and through the marvelous the redemptive for

This volume includes topics on Jean Paulhan as editor and critic, rhetoric and what really happens, rhetoric and politics, and the power of literature, plus two