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Ethical Issues in Twentieth-Century French Fiction : Killing the Other
Ethical Issues in TwentiethCentury French Fiction Killing the Other Author:Colin Davis This book examines ethical problems raised by a number of key 20th-century theoretical and fictional texts by authors such as Levinas, Sartre, Camus, Beauvoir, Yourcenar, Duras and Genet. It argues that even texts which apparently espouse ethical positions based on respect for and responsibility toward others frequently depict conflict as an ins... more »urmountable aspect of human relations. This is reflected at an aesthetic level, as these texts both describe the struggle for supremacy and replicate it in their relation to their readers.« less