A neolyricism is now replacing the formalism of the 1960s, `70s and `80s in avant-garde French poetry and prose. This text shows how the ideological definition of writing has given way to more open forms of writing - ordinary human experiences are now finding a place in the text.
"Timely and provocative. . . . A pioneer work both in its format and in the range of authors it presents. I came away with an enlarged sense of the French cultural scene and the vitality of the players."-Richard Macksey, author of The Structuralist Controversy
"Constitutes a definitive poetics for the recent generation of French poets. The interviews one finds here (and Gavronsky's excellent introduction) will be as important a document of postwar French writing as Symonds' The Symbolist Movement in Literature was for the age of Eliot."-Michael Davidson, author of The San Francisco Renaissance
"This is the best and only introduction to the latest and most interesting literary experimentation in France. Through thoughtful interviews with the authors and a short selection of their work we come to know them intimately and we get a good overall sense of the direction present day French Literature is taking."-Sydney Lévy, editor of SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism
