Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and Culture

Focussing on the experience of work, community and the functioning of class society; on relations between France and Algeria and France's wider colonial project; and on creative labour as both artisanal and artistic, contributors to {i}Labours of Attention{/i} follow paths opened up by the scholarship of Edward J. Hughes. Via critical engagements with the works of Albert Camus and Marcel Proust, as well as with a wider constellation of writers (including Pierre Michon, Jean Genet, Simone de Beauvoir, Blaise Cendrars), artists (including Vincent Van Gogh, Fernand Léger and Paul Cézanne) and film-makers (including Alain Resnais, Yacine Balah and Paolo Sorrentino) this collection of essays explores how these themes and critical preoccupations are captured, problematized and negotiated by twentieth-century literary writing and cultural production in French.Adam Watt is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Exeter.

• | Author: Adam Watt
• | Publisher: Legenda
• | Publication Date: Jun 16, 2025
• | Number of Pages: 00304 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1839540567
• | ISBN-13: 9781839540561