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Max Horkheimer (Hrsg.): Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung, 3. Jg 1933, Heft 1 |
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d'André Gide; son attitude signiflcative, à un tournant de l'histoire, puise toute sa valeur dans son influence si considérable sur la jeune génération, dont les représentants les plus avancés ont passé par le surréalisme.
The object of the following exposition is to determine the attitude of modern French literature, and to trace the main features of its development since Maurice Barrès. We are given the manifold attempts of important authors to inspire themselves with the ideology of the middle class, and to come out on behalf of this class in their writings. Alain's political doctrine of Radical Socialism is confronted with the reactionary traditionalism of Barrés. Charles Péguy's and Julien Benda's exertions to give a normative setting to their concepts of "clerk" and "intellectual" are examined both as regards content and definition. We are then presented with some aspects of present-day Belles Lettre : of the "popular novel", Ferdinand Céline, Julien Green. The antagonism between poet and author is considered in connection wilh Paul Valéry's work which shows this most clearly and fruitfully. The present social standpoint of French litterateurs appears in a concentrated form in the life-work of André Gide. His representative position at a turning-point in development is evidenced by his influence on the younger generation, the most advanced of whom have gone beyond and away from Surrealism.
Max Horkheimer (Hrsg.): Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung, 3. Jg 1933, Heft 1. Librairie Felix Alcan, Paris 1934, Seite 78. Digitale Volltext-Ausgabe bei Wikisource, URL: https://de.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Seite:Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_Sozialforschung_-_Jahrgang_3_-_Heft_1.pdf/80&oldid=- (Version vom 20.8.2022)
