The Verbal Creation of Jean-Pierre Brisset
Redfern, Walter
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Paperback
Edition: Research Monographs in French Studies
Published: 2001
Publisher: European Humanities Research Centre
ISBN / EAN: 1900755521
The nineteenth century in France spawned numerous 'fous litteraires', one of the most fascinating being Jean-Pierre Brisset (1837-1919). An individualist among individualists, he dismantledthe existing French tongue, reshaping it to suit his own grandiose