Literature, Art and the Pursuit of Decay in Twentieth-Century France

Timothy Mathews examines work by a range of writers and painters working in France in the twentieth century. This well-illustrated book engages with canonical figures - Marguerite Duras, Jean Genet and Roland Barthes, Pablo Picasso and Rene Magritte - as well as more neglected individuals including Robert Desnos and Jean Fautrier.