André Maurois (1885-1967): Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Moderate

en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 ian 2014

Respected by his peers and hugely successful internationally in his own time, André Maurois is now hardly read. Moderate and conciliatory in everything, including his literary style, he appealed to the educated reader of his time, but did those very qualities prevent him from achieving lasting distinction and impact?

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137402691
ISBN-10: 1137402695
Pagini: 123
Ilustrații: X, 123 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:2014
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Pivot
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

1. An International Reputation 2. A Literary Phenomenon 3. The Middle Road 4. The Mission of Reconciliation 5. Making Sense: The 'New Biography' 6. Mediator between France and Britain, France and the US 7. Concluding Comment. The Limits of the Middle Ground

Recenzii

"Through a presentation and analysis of aspects of the life of the French writer André Maurois, Gossman's book sheds light on an impressive number of crucial historical, political, and cultural problems faced by France from World War I through the Cold War. Understated, suggestive, and balanced in its approach to a number of controversial issues, it succeeds in showing the interest in the life of a once popular, but now largely forgotten writer, whose previous celebrity, according to a contemporary of Maurois cited by Professor Gossman, had by the 1970s 'collapsed like a soufflé.' This book could very well have the effect of encouraging the soufflé to rise again, even if undoubtedly not to its original height." - David Carroll, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Irvine, USA

Notă biografică

Lionel Gossman is the M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Romance Languages emeritus at Princeton University, USA.

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