Lawrence Kritzman - Writing

Writing

His books include Destruction/Decouverte: le fonctionnement de la rhetorique dans les Essais de Montaigne, The Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature of the French Renaissance, and The Fabulous Imagination: On Montaigne's Essays. He is currently completing "Death Sentences: Writing and Mortality in post 1950 French texts". Kritzman has also penned articles for Le Monde.

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