Nikolaj Lubecker is Lecturer in French and Film Studies at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

"With Community, Myth and Recognition in Twentieth-Century French Literature and Thought Nikolaj Lubecker has given us a remarkably lucid account of the logics at work in a series of crucial moments of French cultural and intellectual history. Finally we have an analysis that clarifies Breton and Bataille's respective roles in the Contre-attaque movement and justly emphasises the hirtherto under-researched influences of Sorel and Kojève. We are also offered a nuanced, insightful and long overdue study of the post-war 'morality of revolt' articulated in the interchanges between Breton and Bataille. Then a re-evaluation of Sartre, who turns out to be a much more interesting thinker than current orthoxies would have us believe, and finally a tremendously original and elegant reading of Barthes, including of his meditation on 'how to live together'. Lubecker's careful, subtle and sympathetic voice is an excellent guide over this terrain." - Professor Patrick ffrench, French Department, Kings College London, UK

• Introduction; 1. The Convulsive Community: Breton and Bataille in the late 1930s; 2. Transparent and Absent Communities: Breton and Bataille in the 1940s; 3. The Literary Community: Sartre in the late 1940s; 4. The End of Community? Early Barthes, Late Barthes; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Nikolaj Lubecker is Lecturer in French and Film Studies at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

"With Community, Myth and Recognition in Twentieth-Century French Literature and Thought Nikolaj Lubecker has given us a remarkably lucid account of the logics at work in a series of crucial moments of French cultural and intellectual history. Finally we have an analysis that clarifies Breton and Bataille's respective roles in the Contre-attaque movement and justly emphasises the hirtherto under-researched influences of Sorel and Kojève. We are also offered a nuanced, insightful and long overdue study of the post-war 'morality of revolt' articulated in the interchanges between Breton and Bataille. Then a re-evaluation of Sartre, who turns out to be a much more interesting thinker than current orthoxies would have us believe, and finally a tremendously original and elegant reading of Barthes, including of his meditation on 'how to live together'. Lubecker's careful, subtle and sympathetic voice is an excellent guide over this terrain." - Professor Patrick ffrench, French Department, Kings College London, UK

• Introduction; 1. The Convulsive Community: Breton and Bataille in the late 1930s; 2. Transparent and Absent Communities: Breton and Bataille in the 1940s; 3. The Literary Community: Sartre in the late 1940s; 4. The End of Community? Early Barthes, Late Barthes; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Nikolaj Lubecker is Lecturer in French and Film Studies at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

"With Community, Myth and Recognition in Twentieth-Century French Literature and Thought Nikolaj Lubecker has given us a remarkably lucid account of the logics at work in a series of crucial moments of French cultural and intellectual history. Finally we have an analysis that clarifies Breton and Bataille's respective roles in the Contre-attaque movement and justly emphasises the hirtherto under-researched influences of Sorel and Kojève. We are also offered a nuanced, insightful and long overdue study of the post-war 'morality of revolt' articulated in the interchanges between Breton and Bataille. Then a re-evaluation of Sartre, who turns out to be a much more interesting thinker than current orthoxies would have us believe, and finally a tremendously original and elegant reading of Barthes, including of his meditation on 'how to live together'. Lubecker's careful, subtle and sympathetic voice is an excellent guide over this terrain." - Professor Patrick ffrench, French Department, Kings College London, UK

• Introduction; 1. The Convulsive Community: Breton and Bataille in the late 1930s; 2. Transparent and Absent Communities: Breton and Bataille in the 1940s; 3. The Literary Community: Sartre in the late 1940s; 4. The End of Community? Early Barthes, Late Barthes; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.