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| Author | Antoine Compagnon |
|---|---|
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Éditions Gallimard |
Publication date | 2005 |
| Publication place | France |
| Pages | 464 |
| ISBN | 9782070772230 |
Les antimodernes : de Joseph de Maistre à Roland Barthes (lit. 'The Antimoderns: from Joseph de Maistre to Roland Barthes') is a 2005 book by the French literary scholarAntoine Compagnon. It surveys criticism ofmodernity in French literature since the time of theFrench Revolution. Among the writers covered areJoseph de Maistre,Charles Baudelaire,Charles Péguy,Julien Gracq andRoland Barthes.[1][2]
Compagnon had been a student of Barthes in the 1970s and attributes both his teacher and himself with a kind of antimodern thought he defines as "being a lucid modern".[3] The book received the 2006Prix de la critique [fr] from theAcadémie Française.[4]
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