Damian Catani
Damian Catani (born in 1973) is a literary scholar who specialises in 19th- and 20th-century French literature. He has written books about Stéphane Mallarmé and Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
Life and career
[edit]Catani was born in 1973[1] and obtained a doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2000. He is a senior lecturer in French at Birkbeck, University of London, where he began to teach in 2007.[2] In 2003, Peter Lang published his book The Poet in Society: Art, Consumerism and Politics in Mallarmé, on the writings of Stéphane Mallarmé. Catani's Evil: A History in Modern French Literature and Thought, an interdisciplinary study of different approaches to evil in literature, philosophy and political theories, was published by Bloomsbury in 2013.[3][4] His biography about the novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journeys to the Extreme, was published by Reaktion Books in 2021.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Catani, Damian, 1973-". EBSCO Information Services. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
- ^ "Damian Catani". Birkbeck, University of London. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
- ^ Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay (2015). "Review of Evil: A History in Modern French Literature and Thought, by Damian Catani". French Forum. 40 (1): 157–159. doi:10.1353/frf.2015.0008.
- ^ Pshevorska, Liana (2014). "Damian Catani, 'Evil: A History in Modern French Literature and Thought'". AmeriQuests. 11 (1). doi:10.15695/amqst.v11i1.3924.
- ^ Warde, Luke (2022). "Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journeys to the Extreme. By Damian Catani". French Studies. 76 (4): 681–682. doi:10.1093/fs/knac172.
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