Brendan Behan: A Late Modernist Writer Engagé in Postwar Paris

McMahon, Deirdre

dc.contributor.author	McMahon, Deirdre
dc.date.accessioned	2024-07-09T14:48:24Z
dc.date.available	2024-07-09T14:48:24Z
dc.date.issued	2024
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/191233
dc.language.iso	en	cs
dc.publisher	Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta	cs
dc.subject	Brendan Behan	cs
dc.subject	Sindbad Vail	cs
dc.subject	Albert Camus	cs
dc.subject	Jean-Paul Sartre	cs
dc.subject	Samuel Beckett	cs
dc.subject	Points	cs
dc.subject	Shakespeare and Company	cs
dc.subject	“After the Wake,”	cs
dc.subject	Merlin	cs
dc.subject	postwar Paris	cs
dc.title	Brendan Behan: A Late Modernist Writer Engagé in Postwar Paris	cs
dc.type	Vědecký článek	cs
dcterms.accessRights	openAccess
dcterms.license	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
uk.abstract.en	Building on findings presented in the radio documentary Brendan Behan in Paris (RTÉ, 2019) about Behan’s time spent in the city during the late 1940s and early 1950s, this article explores the relationships that Behan forged in Paris, including with Albert Camus and the literary magazine publisher Sindbad Vail, who would become the first to publish Behan’s work internationally. It further explores the significance of the timing of Behan’s arrival into postwar Paris, and his affinity with the philosophical ideas that were circulating there at the time. The article illustrates how Behan’s literary engagement with the city and its intellectuals in the postwar period is both anticipated and reflected in his work, including the vigorous debate between Sartre and Camus on the meaning of freedom, justice, and the nature of violence and revolution. Through this we see Behan as a writer immersed in and familiar with the dominant trends in European, and especially French, writing	cs
dc.publisher.publicationPlace	Praha	cs
uk.internal-type	uk_publication
dc.identifier.doi	10.14712/2571452X.2024.67.5
dc.description.startPage	65	cs
dc.description.endPage	85	cs
dcterms.isPartOf.name	Litteraria Pragensia	la
dcterms.isPartOf.journalYear	2024
dcterms.isPartOf.journalVolume	2024
dcterms.isPartOf.journalIssue	67
dcterms.isPartOf.issn	2571-452X
dc.relation.isPartOfUrl	http://litteraria-pragensia.ff.cuni.cz

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