Le Tact du polémiste Karl Kraus, Charles Péguy et Lu Xun

A study of Péguy’s Cahiers de la quinzaine, of Viennese writer Karl Kraus’s Fackel, and of the “essays” (zawen) of the Chinese writer Lu Xun, this book analyzes the “destructive character” (Walter Benjamin) of the polemical writer in global literature, from the Dreyfus affair to the 1930s.