Les Manifestations Du Tragique Dans Les Bouts Du Bois De Dieu De Sembene Ousmane

ideas. The Lansonian belief that a nation is to be judged by its literature has not entirely disappeared, nor has the liberal, humanist tradition. But at the end of the twentieth century, ‘Literature’ is a word fiercely contested by the latest manifestation of the querelle des anciens et des modernes which no generation escapes. For devout traditionalists, living authors are not to be granted literary status by definition. For the progressively minded, books are texts and to apply ‘literary’ standards