Author: LORENZ E. A. EITNERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Gericault
Author: LORENZ E. A. EITNERCatalogue des objets d'art anciens et modernes, tableaux & gravures, faïences & porcelaines anciennes et modernes, objets de vitrine, objets divers, cachets, argenterie, bronzes anciens & modernes, sièges et meubles anciens, étoffes anciennes, tapisseries anciennes, tapis
Author: The French New Novel
Author: John SturrockPublisher: London ; New York [etc.] : Oxford U.P.
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Objets d'art et d'ameublement anciens et modernes, peintures
Author: Time and the Novel
Author: Adam Abraham MendilowPublisher:
ISBN: 9780391002203
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Flanders Road
Author: Claude SimonPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681375958
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
By the winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature, a riveting, stylistically audacious modernist epic about the French cavalry's bloody face-off against German Panzer tanks during WWII. On a sunny day in May 1940, the French army sent out the cavalry against the invading German army’s panzer tanks. Unsurprisingly, the French were routed. Twenty-six-year-old Claude Simon was among the French forces. As they retreated, he saw his captain shot off his horse by a German sniper. This is the primal scene to which Simon returns repeatedly in his fiction and nowhere so powerfully as in his most famous novel The Flanders Road. Here Simon’s own memories overlap with those of his central character, Georges, whose captain, a distant relative, dies a similar death. Georges reviews the circumstances and sense—or senselessness—of that death, first in the company of a fellow prisoner in a POW camp and then some years later in the course of an ever more erotically charged visit to the captain’s widow, Corinne. As he does, other stories emerge: Corinne’s prewar affair with the jockey Iglésia, who would become the captain’s orderly; the possible suicide of an eighteenth-century ancestor, whose grim portrait loomed large in Georges’s childhood home; Georges’s learned father, whose books are no help against barbarism. The great question throughout, the question that must be urgently asked even as it remains unanswerable, is whether fiction can confront and respond to the trauma of history.
Orion Blinded
Author: Randi BirnPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838724200
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Not in catalog (Orion Blinded)
English Goldsmiths and Their Marks
Author: Sir Charles James JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Goldsmiths
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Catalogue d'objets d'art, antiquités, faïences, porcelaines, cristaux, bronzes, bonbonnières et objets de vitrine, argenteries, étoffes anciennes, vitraux, meubles anciens, tableaux, dessins, etc. dont la vente publique aura lieu pour cause de départ au château de Mr. Alfred Van Imschoot, propriétaire a Mont-St-Amand-lez-Gand, Chaussée d'Anvers, n° 270
Author: Early Writings
Author: Gustave FlaubertPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803219823
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
No history of literature could afford to overlook Gustave Flaubert, the meticulous craftsman whose Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education are enduring classics. His finished novels are easily available, but his earliest works have been the private province of professional scholars. Early Writings is the first English translation of Flaubert?s astonishing juvenilia, astonishing not only because of its glimmers of genius but also because of its fantasy. Now readers will be able to see the contours of Flaubert?s career more fully; no note how much effort he took to learn and unlearn, to overcome and suppress. The eleven essays ad tales in this collection include about half of Flaubert?s early experiments in writing. They reveal the eye of a precocious artist who used everything from routine newspaper accounts to the psychopathology of his everyday life as material for fiction. His transformation of reality is best exemplified by ?Diary of a Madman,? based on a chance encounter of the pubescent Gustave with Elisa Schlesinger at Trouville during the summer of 1836. The range of his youthful imagination is illustrated by pieces in the Byronic mold, by caricature of philistine values, epic scenes, metaphysical themes, the fantastic genre of the ?wild tale,? and psychological studies that anticipate his larger portrayals of character. Early Writings reveals the young writer working toward more complex tableaux, increasingly preoccupied with the tension between language and art, medium and ideal. From the beginning Flaubert was obsessed by the daunting task of making language eternalize fleeting perceptions.