Part One: Aesthetic Attitudes
The Nouvelle Revue Francaise / Jacques Riviere
A Discussion of Modern in Literature / Albert Thibaudet
Concerning a New Mal du Siecle / Marcel Arland
Questioning the Concept of Literature / Jacques Riviere
The Post-War Period: The Modern Style / Denis Saurat
Surrealism and Poetry / A. Rolland De Reneville
A General Concept of Art / Paul Valery
Limits, Not Frontiers for Surrealism / Andre Breton
Part Two: Judgments and Appraisals
Picasso and Respect for Nature / Andre Lhote
Points of View on Proust / Charles Du Bos
Marcel Proust and the French Tradition / Albert Thibaudet
A Glimpse of Proust / Valery Larbaud
Marcel Proust: A First Encounter / Gaston Gallimard
Valery Larbaud / Edmond Jaloux
Preface for a Russian Translation of Anabasis / Valery Larbaud
Edouard Bourdets The Captive at the Theatre Femina / Francois Mauriac
The Catastrophe of Igitur / Paul Claudel
Jean Giraudouxs Siegfried / Benjamin Cremieux
From Mauriac to His Work / Jean Prevost
Malraux, the New Man / Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
D.H. Lawrence and Eroticism / Andre Malraux
Jean Cocteaus Infernal Machine / Jean Schlumberger
Andre Gides New Fruits / Andre Malraux
Martin du Gards Summer 1914 / Paul Nizan
The Real Greatness of Mozart in Modern Eyes / Pierre-Jean Jouve
Part Three: Principles and Credos
A Sketch of Psychoanalysis / Jules Romains
The Dearth of Spirituality / Gabriel Marcel
Remarks on Thibaudet as Critic and Philosopher / Henri Bergson
Orthodoxy Against the Intellect / Jean Grenier
Henri Bergson / Jean Wahl
Part Four: Social Commitments
The Hounded Travelers / Henry De Montherlant
On a Certain Lack of Imagination / Jean Schlumberger
Literature and Politics / Ramon Fernandez
Neither Right Nor Left / Denis De Rougemont
Dictators and Dictatorships / Andre Suares
The Idea of Holy War / Jacques Maritain
The Intellectual on Trial / Ramon Fernandez
The Bourgeois Democracies and Germany / Julien Benda.
