Plaisir Du Texte (Le) (Paperback)

from breadhat

This is a beautiful book, if not always a clear source of theoretical insight. Given how short it is, there is really no reason not to give it a little of your time. The culminating section on "Voice" is particularly gorgeous: "In fact, it suffices that the cinema capture the sound of speech clos...

from wickenden

I read a significant portion of this in a class on the "genre of poetry". It's quite beautiful if somewhat difficult to pierce (that's a literary pun if I read the book right). Anyway, I need to read it all. Rating is based on what I thought of what I read.

from Marse

In the middle of reading this short book (66 pages), I remembered a time, a long time ago--I might still have been in high school, when I was invited by the neighbor who taught me French to a talk by a French author at UCI. I could hold my own in a conversation, going beyond basic introductory fo...