A Concise Survey of French Literature

An overview of French literature as it evolved from the Middle Ages to the mid-twentieth century.   In this compact yet wide-ranging volume, the many aspects of French literature and the different tendencies of successive schools are shown in the light of contemporaneous political and artistic developments.   A Concise Survey of French Literature explores the relationship between literature and the evolution of French thought, deeply concerned, as it is, with the problems of human life