Edition |
[1st ed.] |
Description |
320 pages ; 21 cm |
Contents |
The writer's craft -- Voltaire: novels and tales -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: the confession -- Stendhal: Le Rough et le Noir -- Balzac: Le Pere Goriot; Cesar Birotteau -- Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary -- Proust: A la Recherche du Temps Perdu -- Goethe: a decisive turning-point in his life -- Giacomo Leopardi -- Tolstoy and Married life -- The life, the art and the philosophy of Anton Tchekov -- Nicolas Gogol -- The art of Turgenev. |
Note |
Essays, chiefly translations from Lecture mon doux plaisir. |
Subject |
Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
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