A brief history of 20th century French fiction:

in the oughts and teens it was Catholicism, Conservatism, Dreyfus
in the twenties it was the Unconscious and Communism
in the thirties it was Anthropology and Communism
in the forties, well, we don’t talk much about the forties, but it was
a hard time to be a novelist and you can understand that one must make compromises.
in the fifties, it was language as structure
in the sixties it was language as destructure
in the seventies it was sex, sex, sex, and feminine writing
in the eighties, it was still sex with some regrets and gay sex
in the nineties it was the free market.

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