I'm trying to remember something I heard in a lecture years ago. The lecturer said there is a school (or group, I'm not sure) giving birth to French intellectuals who are more interested in writing beautifully than getting their point across. I really want to know the name of this school of thinking, or group, so I can order some of their books this black friday.The lecture was about translation and Russian literature, but he was talking about Tolstoy and Walter Benjamin for some reason. Any help?
>>24848827like in the infinite sense that it could be any group of people, or the more positive sense that it's one specific thing? You seem to know who Walter Benjamin is so I'm assuming you're not referring to post-structuralists, maybe something still ongoing?
>>24848839I'm not sure, but I think he's talking about a movement or a very specific literary tradition, so, I'm trying to find the name of said movement/tradition.If what he said is too generic and can be applied to too many writers and movements, don't waste your brain cells since it's just to get me some recommendations for like 2 or 4 books.>You seem to know who Walter Benjamin is so I'm assuming you're not referring to post-structuralists, maybe something still ongoing?Honestly, I didn't like to read anything outside of fiction unless it was from work until some months ago when I got a book from Gombrich. I only know Walter Bejamin because I like Baudelaire and I tried to read Passages. I only went to that specific lecture because I like Tolstoy. I'm a really boring person.
This goes into European intellectual obfuscation. They say it's just post-modernists.
>>24848827Probably romanticism. Pretty dogshit empty for the most part but they know how to turn phrases.
>>24848827Probably French Sentimentalists
