Looking for Heroes in Postwar France

Neal Oxenhandler

earliest edition we have, 1995 Dartmouth College Press, 1995 224 pages

This is the story of a love affair with a culture - a 50-year involvement that shaped at the very deepest levels its protagonist's philosophy, his identity, his life. In this elegant piece of "memoir criticism," a genre originated by Montaigne but finding renewed life in recent years, Neal Oxenhandler examines the impact of Camus, Jacob, and Weil on his own evolution as a writer, a scholar, and a human being. He fin...

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Looking for Heroes in Postwar France paperback · 1997 · Dartmouth College Press · 224 pages · 9780874518283
Looking for Heroes in Postwar France edition · 1995 · Dartmouth College Press · 224 pages · 9780874517316
Looking for Heroes in Postwar France edition · Books on Demand · 9780608219929

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