...Sharon Marcus Copyright © 2019 The Trustees of Columbia University 2019 Sharon Marcus SARAH BERNHARDT S FRIEND In 1885, the Kansas City Times published an article with the headline, Sarah Bernhardt s Friend: A Rising But Loveless Artist ­Genius as Affected by Marriage (3). The unsigned...

...Jeanine Parisier Plottel My Friend Monique Jeanine Parisier Plottel My Friend Monique Monique Wittig and I met in November 1984 shortly before Thanksgiving, at Michael Riffaterre s annual poetics colloquium. That year, the colloquium was devoted not to structural or semiotic issues but to poetics...

...Andrew J. Counter Copyright © 2019 The Trustees of Columbia University 2019 Andrew J. ­Counter JUST, GOOD, FRIENDS: THE SEXLESS UTOPIA OF BALZAC S L ENVERS DE L HISTOIRE CONTEMPORAINE N importe, nous nous serons bien aimés, sighs Madame Arnoux, in the penultimate chapter of L Éducation...

...Nicholas White Copyright © 2019 The Trustees of Columbia University 2019 Nicholas White BETWEEN MEN AND ­WOMEN: MAKING FRIENDS IN GUY DE MAUPASSANT S BEL-­AMI The Ladies Man The greatest truism in the myt­hol­ogy around Guy de Maupassant s life is that he was a prolific womanizer...

...Edmund Birch Copyright © 2019 The Trustees of Columbia University 2019 Edmund Birch FRIENDS AMONG ENEMIES: DUMAS S MUSKETEERS The musketeers, we know, are very much the best of friends. Thanks to a remarkable number of adaptations, on stage and screen, this fact has come to be so firmly...

... are like us, and aid in times of need. Yet, t­hese notions should prompt us to ask w­ hether friendship can also be dangerous. Are ­there limits to intimacy and to what confidences we can share with our friends? When does helping a friend cross a line into morally or legally dubious territory? This article...

... était vers cet interlocuteur et non vers moi-m­ ême qu il dirigeait ses pensées, et quand elles suivaient ce sens inverse, elles ne me procuraient aucun plaisir. (II.95) He elsewhere observes that his disapproval of friendship in general does not prevent him from being a good friend on the contrary. D...

..., to the very ­thing that made the question seem worth asking in the first place. Still, at least one t­hing is clear: whate­ ver the reason, and whate­ ver degree of imprecision we might think always inheres in the word, Montaigne and La Boétie w­ ere friends. And in this re­spect, their relationship...

... “hanc sibi rem praesidio sperant futurum” ( Noctes Atticae 1:7). Gellius delights for a good number of paragraphs in his friend’s (“amicus noster”) defense of futurum as a “vetuste locutum” and in his dismissal of the careless reader who might unwittingly correct Cicero’s invariable...

... parents-his mother died in 1905, two years after his father-Proust inherited a considerable fortune that was invested in blue-chip stocks and bonds and was managed by Leon Neuburger, a family friend who worked for the Rothschild Bank. When the novelist began purchasing exotic financial products, Neuburger...

... friends albeit with differing degrees of investment in their friendship and although neither of them knew Monique Wittig (nearly thirty years their junior), all three women had friendships with Nathalie Sarraute, who belonged to the same literary generation as Beauvoir and Leduc and became a lifelong...

..., absentmindedly The Romanic Review Volume 108 Numbers 1 4 © The Trustees of Columbia University 46 Ross Chambers: A Legacy of Love yearning to give a friend an impossible ring ­were something close to fitting images of grief: is it not as though our hearts have rapidly grown too big, or shrunk too small...

...Thomas Pavel The publication of Planetarium in 1959 led to Nathalie’s recognition as a major writer. Translations of her work were published abroad, and in 1964 she was invited to a lecture tour in the United States, she received a major international literary prize, and she made new friends...

... Past was like no other book I’d ever read; it made James seem rather old-fashioned and constrained. Even so, I soon came to portions of the novel that bored me. The first thing I still tell friends who say they’re thinking of reading Proust is that they must feel no guilt whatsoever about skipping...

... female friends), she is seen as a damaging example of the "lactification complex" Fanon elaborated in Peau noire, masques blancs less than ten years before the publication of Cajou. While certainly Fanon's work on this subject has come under considerable scrutiny since then, and while critics...

... diverge from the global cynicism of La Rochefoucauld” (41). 15. In a letter to Sablé (December 5, 1660), La Rochefoucauld writes of her friend Madame de Maure: “J’avais toujours bien cru que Madame la Comtesse de Maure condamnerait l’intention des sentences et qu’elle se déclarerait pour la vérité...

...; Correspondance 8: 727). At the height of Sand s Republican idealism, then, such propaganda called on the reader s emotions in the hope of binding subjects together as ­brothers (w­ hether in arms or not), but also as friends. In her first Letter to the ­People, penned at the beginning of March, Sand had...

... like a burn the time when a ­couple of friends and I took turns keeping him com­pany at the ER of the university hospital where he had landed for one of t­hose ­things that e­ very now and then land old professors in the ER of university hospitals. Thank you for ­doing this, Ross said, as he...

... honoring the memory of these bedfellows, buddies, hometown friends, and mentors, the Memoires du Sergent Bourgogne simultaneously provide a vocabulary for better understanding this broad range of military friendships and their central role in Napoleonic literature, from the memoirs of veterans like...

... back right away, in longhand, with the warmest encouragement. Which brings me to our correspondence. To my knowledge, Ross never used e-­mail (although I m told by his dear friend, David Caron, that he occasionally relied on o­ thers to do it for him). As a result, he now looks more and more like...