Literary Portraits: In Search of the Beautiful
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Literary Portraits: In Search of the Beautiful
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André Maurois was a renowned French writer, a member of the Académie française, and a classic of 20th-century French literature. His creative legacy is vast and multifaceted—psychological novels, short stories, travel essays, historical and literary works, and more. But above all, Maurois is a recognized master of novelized biographies of Dumas, Balzac, Victor Hugo, and others. Therefore, his turn to the genre of literary portraiture—a kind of mini-biography, a short essay dedicated to a particular colleague—was not accidental. By combining these essays into series, Maurois constructed his own history of literary development.
This book brings together literary portraits primarily of French writers (Voltaire, Rousseau, Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Valéry, de Saint-Exupéry, and others), but also includes essays on Goethe, Dickens, and Leo Tolstoy. The scholar's objectivity and erudition are seamlessly combined with masterful exposition and precise psychological observation. Maurois brilliantly conveys the contradictory nature of his characters and reveals the complex nature of creativity. This edition is comprised of two 1964 collections of works—"From La Bruyère to Proust" and "From Proust to Camus."
This book brings together literary portraits primarily of French writers (Voltaire, Rousseau, Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Valéry, de Saint-Exupéry, and others), but also includes essays on Goethe, Dickens, and Leo Tolstoy. The scholar's objectivity and erudition are seamlessly combined with masterful exposition and precise psychological observation. Maurois brilliantly conveys the contradictory nature of his characters and reveals the complex nature of creativity. This edition is comprised of two 1964 collections of works—"From La Bruyère to Proust" and "From Proust to Camus."
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