.... Jacques.dupont50@orange.fr Copyright © 2022 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2022 biographie fiction citations Ce qui fait le succès de quantité d’ouvrages est le rapport qui se trouve entre la médiocrité des idées des auteurs et la médiocrité des idées du public...

...Jean-François Louette Résumé Une esquisse de biographie existentielle ; une esquisse de psychanalyse existentielle ; une esquisse d’éthique existentielle – voilà le Baudelaire de Sartre 1 . Ce n’est pas le moins du monde une charge contre Les Fleurs du Mal ou Le Spleen de Paris ni une étude des ces...

... Wiliamson. Borges. A Life. New York: Viking, 2004, Pp. 574. As he states in the Preface, Edwin Williamson planned to dedicate some four and a half years to the preparation of his biography of Jorge Luis Borges, but BOOK REVIEWS 303 the project ended up taking him twice that amount of time. In his search...

... published her last book: a biography of the ­eighteenth-­century portrait painter Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution. Last spring I learned that Gita had died, and I couldn t help wondering if she had known about the large upcoming...

... a biography, nor a standard literary study, but a portrait of the "third Flaubert," the one who appears above all in the manuscripts with which Biasi is so familiar: this is to be a biography of the writing process. Of course, previous biographies-and English-speaking undergraduates may well continue...

... litteratures europeennes des XVIe siecles. (ESTELLE DOUDET, University of Lille) Mireille Huchon. Rabelais. Paris: Gallimard, 2011. Pp. 430. Voici un monument d'erudition. Cette biographie de Rabelais est un livre qui, pour l'amateur comme pour Ie specialiste, reserve un grand nombre de BOOK REVIEWS bonnes...

... d'eau (published in 1949). The study will interest readers seeking scholarship on Ponge's literary biography and his relationship to the visual arts, and it will introduce the work of Kermadec to many readers. In a meticulous presentation ofPonge's early biography and the circumstances...

..., devoted to life and death, presents, in fragments, the deaths of the great Algerian writers. This vocation recalls that of the reconstitution of Zoulikha's life from traces in The Woman without a Tomb. Biography is a specific use of history, to which it can appear subordinate. Like history, biography...

... American literature and Translation Studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara. Her books include the literary biography Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions. Among her many translations are her contributions to the Viking Penguin edition of Borges's Selected Non-Fictions...

.... From even this brief capsule biography, it is apparent that Gilles’s writerly career was shaped by, and responsive to, an embodied life story. Like modern illness narratives, Gilles’s body of work comes into existence in the aftermath of “a dramatic rupture of a life history” (Good 170...

... and centrifugal elements are present in every part of the corpus: the centripetal core is identified with Perceval's biography, which "provides the core without which the corpus would not cohere as a textual unit; centrifugal, digressive counter-narratives provide BOOK REVIEWS the material which swells the text...

... Wettlaufer, and Geoffrey Turnovsky. A highlight of the first part of this issue is the short biography of Gita May by Pierre Force, her colleague in the Columbia French Department for many years. Although she did not often speak of the early period of her life, Gita was deeply affected by the German invasion...

... in Medieval Europe . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2008 . Latour Bruno . “ An Attempt at a ‘Compositionist Manifesto.’ ” New Literary History 41 , no. 3 ( 2010 ): 471 – 90 . Latour Bruno . “ Biography of an Inquiry: On a Book about Modes of Existence .” Social...

... over two thousand pages of a narrative in which he could insert, as Tadié puts it, “everything he’d experienced or thought or felt about life.” Norman Mailer compared writers reading literary biographies to bank robbers who want to know “How did he pull the job off this time?” But all I could find...

..., through the eyes of Emir, that it was a progeny of Borges's fictions, notably "The Circular Ruins" (1940) and his early "imaginary biographies" A Universal History of Infamy (1935). Borges wrote his best known works between 1935 and 1960, and continues to be the most significant writer Spanish America...

..., the press published five volumes of writings and criticism pertaining to Sade: The Marquis de Sade: An Essay by Simone de Beauvoir with Selections from His Writings Chosen by Paul Dinnage (1953); Gilbert Lely's The Marquis de Sade, A Definitive Biography (trans. Alec Brown, 1962); The Complete Justine...

.... ,,4 I had no patience with these fancy dressmaking metaphors when I first read the book ten years ago. At that point I was still trying to decide whether or not to attempt the task Aragon despised above all: to write a biography, "to take on the role of historian to Matisse"S, or - another favourite...

... de Nerval face aux « denonciations necrologiques » de Janin en 1841 et de Dumas en 1853, et y voit la preuve de son profond desir d'asseoir sa credibilite d'ecrivain. Selon lui, les recits de voyage, les biographies et les fictions de Nerval ne seraient pour cet ecrivain fort investi dans Ie devenir...

... a gaucho tragedy derived from the national epic, the Martin Fierro, ("Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz a story set during Argentina's Indian wars paired up with a story about a fourth-century Barbarian invading Ravenna ("Story of the Warrior and the Captive a story about the Greek Minotaur ("The House...

...Thomas Pavel tpavel@uchicago.edu Ann Jefferson , Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2020 . Copyright © 2022 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2022 Ann Jefferson’s biography of Nathalie Sarraute...