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Martin Turnell
Also known as: Martin TURNELL
The Catholic literary revival is a term that has been applied to a movement towards explicit Catholic allegiance and themes among leading literary figures in France and England, roughly in the century from 1860 to 1960. This often involved conversion to Catholicism or a conversion-like return to the Catholic Church. The phenomenon is sometimes extended to the United States.
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Hans-Christian Kirschs Roman über das ungewöhnliche Leben des Henri Beyle könnte auch "Phantasia" genannt werden. Collageartig verleiht er seiner Bewunderung für einen Menschen uns sein Werk Ausdruck, der zwar zu den Großen der Literatur unseres Nachbarlandes zählt, dessen Romane - vielleicht abgesehen von "Rot und Schwarz" und der "Kartause von Parma" in Deutschland kaum bekannt sind. Fiktionales und Reales (Briefe, Tagebücher, autobiographische Schriften Stendhals und Äußerungen seiner Zeitgesossen) fügen sich zum Bild eines schillernden, vom Eros getriebenen Egomanen, in dessen Leben Frauen eine ganz besondere Rolle spielten und das sich in einem opulenten "Fest der Liebe" vollendete.
Baudelaire
1953
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, US also ; French: [saʁtʁ]; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology) and was a proponent of Libertarian Marxism. His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution." Sartre had an open relationship with prominent feminist and fellow existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. Together, Sartre and de Beauvoir challenged the cultural and social assumptions and expectations of their upbringings, which they considered bourgeois, in both lifestyles and thought.