Abstract

In recent times, literary works have come to be considered a useful means of assessing sport. Through literature it is possible to analyse contemporary society more realistically than by the social sciences, and literature tends to show the time and society more vividly by its free imagination. To explore sport through literature seems to be most suitable approach. Before that it is necessary to assess the meaning of sport literature. The purpose of the present paper is to examine the posibilities of sport literature, that is the question to what degree the idea of sport can be put into words, and what kind of value sport literature has. In this paper, Le Sport by the French writer Jean Giraudoux published in 1928 is analyzed. Verf.-Referat