Opacity and transparence: Conceptions of history in the work of Michel Butor and Édouard Glissant

Titre: Opacity and transparence: Conceptions of history in the work of Michel Butor and Édouard Glissant; French Studies
Titre du volume: 3
Volume: 49
Date: 1995/07
Issn: 00161128
Résumé: Compares Michel Butor's and Edouard Glissant's philosophical views and conceptions of history as depicted in their works. Consciousness, lucidity and illumination as Butor's values toward achievement of `transparence' and understanding; Glissant's acceptance of unknown in recognition of chaotic reality or `opacity'.
Creator: Celia Britton
Subject: BUTOR, Michel, 1926-2016; CRITICISM; GLISSANT, Edouard, 1928-2011
pages: 308
short title: French Studies; Opacity and transparence