Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Pretexts
Table of Contents
Introduction
Four Lectures
	Concerning Influence in Literature
	The Limits of Art
	The Importance of the Public
	The Evolution of the Theater
The Barrès Problem
	Apropos of “Les Dèracinès”
	The Poplar Tree Quarrel
	Normandy and Bas-Languedoc
		I
		II
Imaginary Interviews from “L\' Ermitage”
	Letter to M. Edouard Ducotè
	Second Interview
	[Third Interview]
Nationalism and Literature
	Concerning an Inquiry of “La Phalange”
	Second Article
		I
		II
License, Moral Depravityy and Senator Bèrenger’s Declarations
In Memoriam
	Stèphane Mallarmè
	Oscar Wilde
		I
		II
		III
		IV
		V
Baudelaire and M. Faguet
Political Essays
	Reflections on Germany
	The Future of Europe
Notes to Angèle
	Reply to an Inquiry of “La Renaissance” on Classicism
	Classicism
	Classicism
	Marcel Proust
	“La Nouvelle Revue Françhise”
	“La Nouvelle Revue Françhise”
	Maurice Barrès
		DISCOURS À L ’ ACADÉMIE
		LES DÉRACINÉS
		LES AMITIÉS FRANÇAISES
		SCÉNES ET DOCTRINES DU NATIONALISME
		AU SERVICE DE L\'ALLEMAGNE
		PASCAL
		L\'APPEL AU SOLDAT
		LE VOYAGE DE SPARTE
Open Letters
	To Jacques Rivière
	To Jean Cocteau
	To Francis Jammes
Thoughts on Greek Mythology
	FRAGMENTS OF \'THE TREATISE ON THE DIOSCURI\'
		I
		II
Conversation with a German Several Years Before the War
The Ten French Novels
Thèophile Gautier
Prefaces
	To the “Fleurs du Mal”
	To “Armance”
	To “The Queen of Spades”
Upon Rereading “(Les Plaisirs et les Jours” After the Death of Marcel Proust
Paul Valèry
Dada
Portraits and Aphorisms
	Characters
	An Unprejudiced Mind
Index