Critic of Civilization: Georges Duhamel and His Writings - Paperback

by L. Clark Keating (Author)

As one of the outstanding minds of France, the career of George Duhamel reflects the universal range of his interests. A physician turned poet, playwright, novelist, publicist, critic, and world traveler, Duhamel for half a century has sought as a liberal humanist to defend the moral and aesthetic values of Western civilization against the encroachment of a dehumanizing machine age. Duhamel first achieved fame as a writer with two eloquent outcries against war in Vie des Martyrs and Civilisatio

Author Biography

L. Clark Keating is chairman of the Department of Modem Foreign Languages and Literatures in the University of Kentucky.