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Richard Holmes (trans) and
Theophile Gautier
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Publication date
August 5, 2008
Pages
194
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781590172711
ISBN-10
159017271X
Dimensions
0.50 by 5.25 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.50 lbs.
Original list price
$14.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Romantic provocateur, flamboyant bohemian, precocious novelist, perfect poetânot to mention an inexhaustible journalist, critic, and man-about-townâThéophile Gautier is one of the major figures, and great characters, of French literature.
In My Fantoms Richard Holmes, the celebrated biographer of Shelley and Coleridge, has found a brilliantly effective new way to bring this great bu too-little-known writer into English. My Fantoms assembles seven stories spanning the whole of Gautierâs career into a unified work that captures the essence of his adventurous life and subtle art. From the erotic awakening of âThe Adolescentâ through âThe Poet,â a piercing recollection of the mad genius Gérard de Nerval, the great friend of Gautierâs youth, My Fantoms celebrates the senses and illuminates the strange disguises of the spirit, while taking readers on a tour of modernity at its most mysterious. âWhat ever would the Devil find to do in Paris?â Gautier wonders. âHe would meet people just as diabolical as he, and find himself taken for some naïve provincialâ¦â
Tapestries, statues, and corpses come to life; young men dream their way into ruin; and Gautier keeps his faith in the power of imagination: âNo one is truly dead, until they are no longer loved.â
In My Fantoms Richard Holmes, the celebrated biographer of Shelley and Coleridge, has found a brilliantly effective new way to bring this great bu too-little-known writer into English. My Fantoms assembles seven stories spanning the whole of Gautierâs career into a unified work that captures the essence of his adventurous life and subtle art. From the erotic awakening of âThe Adolescentâ through âThe Poet,â a piercing recollection of the mad genius Gérard de Nerval, the great friend of Gautierâs youth, My Fantoms celebrates the senses and illuminates the strange disguises of the spirit, while taking readers on a tour of modernity at its most mysterious. âWhat ever would the Devil find to do in Paris?â Gautier wonders. âHe would meet people just as diabolical as he, and find himself taken for some naïve provincialâ¦â
Tapestries, statues, and corpses come to life; young men dream their way into ruin; and Gautier keeps his faith in the power of imagination: âNo one is truly dead, until they are no longer loved.â
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Paperback
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from New York Review of Books (August 5, 2008)
9781590172711 | details & prices | 194 pages | 5.25 × 8.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $14.00
About: Romantic provocateur, flamboyant bohemian, precocious novelist, perfect poetânot to mention an inexhaustible journalist, critic, and man-about-townâThéophile Gautier is one of the major figures, and great characters, of French literature.
About: Romantic provocateur, flamboyant bohemian, precocious novelist, perfect poetânot to mention an inexhaustible journalist, critic, and man-about-townâThéophile Gautier is one of the major figures, and great characters, of French literature.
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