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Germaine Bree (1907–2001)

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Tekijän teokset

Camus: A Collection of Critical Essays (1962) — Toimittaja — 101 kappaletta
Great French Short Stories (1946) — Toimittaja — 72 kappaletta
Camus (1959) 56 kappaletta
Twentieth Century Texts : Albert Camus : L'Etranger (1970) — Toimittaja — 35 kappaletta
French Novel from Gide to Camus (1957) — Tekijä — 31 kappaletta
Contes Et Nouvelles, 1950-1970 (1970) 17 kappaletta
Albert Camus (1963) 13 kappaletta
World of Marcel Proust (1966) 6 kappaletta

Associated Works

Sivullinen (1942) — Toimittaja, eräät painokset35,353 kappaletta
Huomenna hän tulee (1953) — Toimittaja, eräät painokset12,874 kappaletta
Life/Lines: Theorizing Women's Autobiography (1988) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset16 kappaletta

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Syntymäaika
1907-10-02
Kuolinaika
2001-09-22
Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
France (birth)
USA (naturalized 1952)
Syntymäpaikka
Lasalle, Gard, France
Kuolinpaikka
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Asuinpaikat
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Channel Islands, France
Algeria
Koulutus
Bryn Mawr
University of Paris
Ammatit
professor
literary scholar
biographer
Organisaatiot
Modern Language Association (president, 1975)
Modern Humanities Research Association
American Association of Teachers of French
The American Pen
American Society of the Legion of Honor
Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
Bronze Star(French Army)
Legion d'Honneur
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Medallion of Merit(Wake Forest College)
Lyhyt elämäkerta
Germaine Bree was born in France and spent much of her childhood in the English-speaking Channel Islands. She received a licence from the University of Paris in 1930, taught in Algeria from 1932 to 1936, and did postgraduate work at Bryn Mawr College. She joined the faculty of Bryn Mawr in 1936.

In World War II, she took a leave of absence from Bryn Mawr from 1943 to 1945 to serve with the French Army. She worked in Algiers and France, and with the French Resistance in Paris, eventually receiving a Bronze Star and the Legion of Honor.

Prof. Bree became was an internationally renowned authority on 20th century French literature and one of America's most distinguished professors in the humanities. She taught at New York University (1953-1960) and the University of Wisconsin at Madison (1960-1973) before moving to Wake Forest University in 1973, where she was named Kenan Professor of Humanities and won the university's highest honor, the Medallion of Merit.
After retiring from Wake Forest in 1984, she was a visiting professor at Princeton University, Williams College, and The Ohio State University. Her groundbreaking works on French writers remain standards in her field. Prof. Bree's books on Albert Camus (her friend for 15 years) and Jean-Paul Sartre helped introduce a generation of USA teachers and scholars to these voices of the French modern era.

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This collection of stories by French (or French language) authors was published in 1960. It contains stories from the 15th to mid-20th centuries. I had not read a single one of these stories before though I've heard of all but a couple of the authors. Some stories, by very well-known and distinguished writers, did not stay in my mind. Some of them I found incomprehensible such as the modernist "6 stories in 3 lines," or just plain irritating such as Beckett's "Stories and Texts, III" (and by the way, I realize Beckett wrote in French, but really, ending a book of Great French stories with him?!)

The stories that stood out for me were Anatole France's "The Procurator of Judaea" with its little twist at the end, though the reason I liked it so much is probably because I had heard this story and its twist retold by Professor Vladimir Markov in a Russian literature seminar at UCLA. There were only a few graduate students in the class at the time, held in his office, and I can still see Prof. Markov, modest and elegant in his suit and tie, reenacting the story in two or three sentences. His charmingly ironic telling of it somehow stuck with me these 30 years. The story that I most enjoyed was by an author I had never heard of: Jules Supervielle. "The Child of the High Seas" is an eery story, part ghost-story, part-fantasy. It had a wonderful other-worldliness to it.

The book itself, paperbook, 1st edition from 1960, is falling apart. I lost the table of contents, and now most of the pages are falling out. I think I'll have to discard it. The book is an introduction to (mostly) great French writers, however, I wonder whether these stories are actually the best examples of these authors' writing.

Contains:
"The Chaste Lover," by Anonymous;
"The Princess of Montpensier," by Comtesse de la Fayette;
"This is Not a Story," by Denis Diderot;
"Dead Man's Combe," by Charles Nodier;
"La Grande Breteche," by Honore de Balzac;
"Pandora," by Gerard de Nerval;
"The Generous Gamester," by Charles Baudelaire;
"Hautot and His Son," by Guy de Maupassant;
"Torture Through Hope," by Villiers de L'Isle Adam;
"The White Water-Lily," by Stephane Mallarme;
"The Procurator of Judaea," by Anatole France;
"6 Stories in Three Lines," by Felix Feneon;
"The Japanese Family," "The Serial Novel--Again," by Max Jacob;
"The Little Bouilloux Girl," by Collette;
"The Child of the High Seas," by Jules Supervielle;
"The Room," by Jean-Paul Sartre;
"The Guest," by Albert Camus;
"The Walker-through-Walls," by Marcel Ayme;
"The Animals," by Pierre Gascar;
"Stories and Texts for Nothing, III," by Samuel Beckett
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Marse | Mar 6, 2014 |
Germaine Bree, one of the foremost authorities on modern French literature, has produced one of the best studies of Proust's novel. It is organized well with economical prose covering topics ranging from "The Proustian World" to Proust's place among his peers as a novelist. Just as she has done for Camus and Gide, Ms. Bree provides an essential guide to the thought and writing of Marcel Proust.
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jwhenderson | Dec 23, 2007 |
Art, in a sense, is a revolt against everything fleeting and unfinished in the world. Albert Camus (1913-1960).

From the first, his writings appear as a succession of explosions--the explosions of a human mind in anxiety and revolt before a world that does not hear, a universe that is indifferent to our demands. Camus expressed both the horror of living during Hitler's rise and World War II and the desire to establish a meaningful life in a meaningless world of war and futile conquest. Not content with the nihilism of his age and unable to ignore the catastrophe of modern life, he developed two related concepts, "the absurd" and "revolt" into a significant philosophy of life. And it was his insistence that an authentic revolt against the human condition had to be a revolt in the name of "the solidarity, of man with man" that has kept the questions--and the implicit hope--of Albert Camus alive.

It was with the novel of his generation, The Stranger, that Camus burst upon literary Paris in 1942. This was the story that struck a chord in so many young people in Europe, and later in America. They found it understandable, and they were sympathetic to it. A symbolic portrayal of alienation, this is the story of a dazed and benumbed young man named Mersault, a victim of a world lacking the sustenance of any belief that recovery was possible. It is only when he is faced with extermination that Mersault's apathy turns to a violent outburst and he begins his long journey toward a sense of "consciousness." He is then forced to justify what he has been and done. He is thus on trial as a human being.

Further probing brings Camus to grips with the most vital question: whether it makes any sense to go on living once the absurdity of human life is fully understood and assimilated. In his essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, he thus poses for consideration the problem of suicide as the only serious philosophical problem, and he answers with a rejection of suicide as an adequate response. "Suicide," says Camus, "is an admission of incapacity." Such an admission is inconsistent with the human dimension to which he openly appeals. "Only by going on living in the face of their own absurdity, and only by the conscious espousal of human purpose and action, can human beings achieve their full stature."(2) Camus's response is a moving acceptance of the human condition on its own terms: "revolt," "liberty," and "passion."

Camus interpreted Nazism as one reaction to the very nihilistic vision of the world that he himself had come to accept. But he went on to condemn Nazism in the severest terms for its denial of human fraternity. So that, early in the development of his thought, Camus already insisted that an authentic revolt against the human condition had to be a revolt in the name of "the solidarity of man with man."
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