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Record Nr.

UNINA9910133547103321

Autore

Compagnon Antoine

Titolo

La Littérature, pour quoi faire / / Antoine Compagnon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Collège de France, 2007

France : , : Fayard Artheme Librairie, , 2007

ISBN

2-8218-2954-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (80 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Soggetti

Languages & Literatures

Literature - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Sommario/riassunto

With regard to the traditional theoretical or historical question: “What is literature? », Today a critical and political question arises more urgently:« What can literature do? What value do contemporary society and culture place on literature? What use? Which role ? “My confidence in the future of literature,” Calvino said, “rests on the certainty that there are things that only literature can give us. »Would this creed still be ours?