by Mona Ozouf · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070134571
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«La cause des livres» is the collection of articles by Mona Ozouf, published by Gallimard in paperback (547 pages, in French).
The book brings together articles that Mona Ozouf published over forty years in the Nouvel Observateur, on the literature and history of France: the novel, the words of women, the heritage of the Revolution and the country's diversity in the face of its national unity. The author presents them as occasional encounters with works and figures of the past, guided by literary current events.
The work appeared in 2011; this paperback edition, under Gallimard's nrf imprint, includes bibliographic references.
For readers interested in the French literary essay and in Mona Ozouf's view of literature, history and the identity of France.
Mona Ozouf is a French historian and philosopher. Born into a family of schoolteachers keen on preserving the language and the culture of Brittany, she graduated as a teacher of philosophy from the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles.
