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
Catani was born in 1973 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. 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. His biography about the novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journeys to the Extreme, was published by Reaktion Books in 2021.
References
- "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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