By Bradford Lyau
Following global struggle II, the Fleuve Noir publishing apartment released well known American style fiction in translation for a French viewers. Their imprint Anticipation really good in technology fiction, yet normally eschewed translations from English, who prefer as a substitute French paintings, hence making the imprint a big outlet for local French postwar principles and aesthetics. This severe textual content examines in ideological phrases 11 writers who released less than the Anticipation imprint, revealing the best way those writers criticized midcentury notions of development whereas adapting and remodeling American style codecs.
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