Sentences with phrase «french literary critic»

In 1954, French literary critic Michel Carrouges borrowed the term bachelor machine from this work to name a pervasive trend in turn - of - the - century art and literature, citing the work of Mary Shelley, Edgar Allen Poe, Jules Verne, Alfred Jarry, Villiers de l'Isle - Adam, Raymond Roussel, Franz Kafka, Fritz Lang, Thea Von Harbou, and Jean Tinguely, among others.

There is a more theological way to put this» a way suggested by the work of the French literary critic turned American theologian, René Girard, whose latest book, I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, is as clear and systematic a primer to his thought as he has yet produced.

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This chorus includes the muses of visceral realism, the beautiful Font sisters; their father, an architect interned in a Mexico City asylum; a sensitive young follower of Octavio Paz; a foul - mouthed American graduate student; a French girl with a taste for the Marquis de Sade; the great - granddaughter of Leon Trotsky; a Chilean stowaway with a mystical gift for numbers; the anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire; an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola; and assorted hangers - on, detractors, critics, lovers, employers, vagabonds, real - life literary figures, and random acquaintances.