Bøger af William Cloonan

Subsequent chapters explore new French attitudes toward the powerful, potentially dominant influence of American culture on French life. In these sections I argue that recent French fiction displays more openness to the American experience than has existed in the past, and as such contrasts with the more static American approach to French culture.

In this work on how World War II affected the writing of literature in France and Germany, the author argues that many established writers were unsuccessful in their attempts to write about the war because they refused to confront the ways in which that conflict was different from previous ones.