The Routledge Foreign Literature Classics series presents iconic novels, plays and collections of poetry from the twentieth century in their original languages. This series includes works of key significance to modernism, existentialism and European literature and culture.
Within each volume, the editors provide detailed introductions in English along with useful explanatory notes on the text. Particular attention is paid to the contemporary critical context of the work; how it is situated within the literary culture of the time, and how the polemical spirit of twentieth century writing overlapped with political, philosophical and social commentary.
Clear and concise, these student editions are ideal for anyone working in the subjects of French, German and Comparative Literature.
By Alain Robbe-Grillet, B.G. Garnham
February 01, 1969
The full French text is accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context....
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By Christiane Mortelier
May 21, 1981
Includes the French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the poems in their social and historical context....
Edited
By Peter Hutchinson, Franz Kafka, Michael Minden
March 06, 1986
Franz Kafka is one of the most important figures in twentieth-century culture. The fascination of his work has long since reached international proportions, and the concept 'Kafkaesque' has entered the English Language as an everyday part of speech. This new edition of Kafka's famous story contains...
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By Walter Redfern, Jean-Paul Sartre
December 21, 2015
The full French text of Sartre's first full-length play is accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context....
By Max Frisch, Peter Hutchinson
September 29, 2015
Includes the full German text, accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context....
By Albert Camus, Ray Davison
September 29, 2015
L'Etranger has the force and fascination of myth. The outwardly simple narrative of an office clerk who kills an Arab, 'a cause du soleil', and finds himself condemned to death for moral insensibility becomes, in Camus's hands, a powerful image of modern man's impatience before Christian philosophy...
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By Paul Brooke, Joseph Joffo
September 29, 2015
The full French text is accompanied by vocabulary explanations. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context....
By Friedrich Dürrenmatt, P.K. Ackermann
October 01, 1961
The full German text of Dürrenmatt's play is accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context....
By Pascal Lainé, Michael Tilby
October 15, 1981
The full French text of Lainé's novel is accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context....