Critic of Civilization: Georges Duhamel and His Writings

As one of the outstanding minds of France, the career of George Duhamel reflects the universal range of his interests. A physician turned poet, playwright, novelist, publicist, critic, and world traveler, Duhamel for half a century has sought as a liberal humanist to defend the moral and aesthetic values of Western civilization against the encroachment of a dehumanizing machine age. Duhamel first achieved fame as a writer with two eloquent outcries against war in Vie des Martyrs and Civilisatio

Author: L. Clark Keating
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780813152950

About the Author

L. Clark Keating is chairman of the Department of Modem Foreign Languages and Literatures in the University of Kentucky.

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