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E-book French Literature 1950 - 2000 : An Antology
Before the pessimism of the 1920s set in, a brief period of optimism (roughly from 1890 to 1914) reigned in France which is popularly known as ‘the belle époque’. It constituted an exhilarating period of economic prosperity and progress. People living during this time were materially confident and culturally optimistic. Inventions like the telephone, the automobile, the airplane, and the cinema enlivened and speeded up modern life. Art of any genre prospered like never before. There was tremendous expansion in literary output and the ever-faster pace of experimentation with new means of expression. Both Marxism and Freudianism made a deep imprint on literature of the period, as on all the arts. While the two world wars gravely lacerated France the technological revolution confronted the current generation with an altogether new world. The result of such profound socio-economic and political change led to a continuous questioning of all moral, intellectual, and artistic traditions: from impressionism to Art Nouveau and cubism, and from romantic to political and socio-critical literature.
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