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Taking a Second Look: The Changing Face of the Literary Past in European Cinema

Robin Buss

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256 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1999

About the author

Robin Buss was an English translator, journalist, film critic and Francophile. As well as French, he was fluent in Russian, Italian, Swedish, Spanish and Welsh. As a film critic, he championed French film noir and published three works on European cinema. He wrote critical studies of works by Vigny and Cocteau, and became a leading translator of classic French fiction, making Zola, Sartre, Dumas and others accessible to English-speakers.

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