Download or read book Absent Without Leave written by Denis Hollier and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to explore the French writers and critics of the 1930s and 1940s, who were to shape French literature. It studies the prehistory of postmodernism, looking at the main figures in French literature before the age of anxiety gave way to the era of