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Part of the book: The Work and Thought of Jean Grenier (1898-1971)

J. S. T. Garfitt

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 20

Modern Humanities Research Association

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Abstract.  This study of the work of Jean Grenier is an attempt to present a faithful picture of a little-known figure who, in his life and in his writing, was constantly expressing and resolving, with a greater or lesser degree of success, man's basic problems of freedom and choice in a puzzling contingent existence. His œuvre is wide-ranging, and it has not seemed legitimate to leave any area totally out of consideration, simply because, despite its apparent diversity, it presents a remarkable unity. Grenier himself maintained that he had only one song to sing, and the more one explores his philosophy, his art criticism and writings on aesthetics, his essays and novels, his literary criticism, his religious fragments and 'poems', the more the truth of that claim becomes evident.

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