Dictionary of French and English, English and French
Author : John Bellows
Publisher :
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 1911
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : John Bellows
Publisher :
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 1911
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Gustave Flaubert
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 15,10 MB
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3736808011
Madame Bovary is the French writer Gustave Flaubert's debut novel. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden patterns. Flaubert was a notorious perfectionist and claimed always to be searching for le mot juste ("the precise word"). Long established as one of the greatest novels ever written, the book has often been described as a "perfect" work of fiction. Henry James writes: "Madame Bovary has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone; it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgment." Giorgio de Chirico said that in his opinion "from the narrative point of view, the most perfect book is Madame Bovary by Flaubert".
Author : GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 1904
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ISBN :
Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 34,5 MB
Release : 2015-08-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781297790614
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Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher :
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Presidents
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Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 2013-08-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1627933212
Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama: "We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries. I am satisfied, Madam, that the wits of Athens condemned, as well as you, some of those repetitions, and some declamations with which Sophocles has loaded his Electra: they must have observed that he had not dived deep enough into the human heart. I will moreover fairly confess, that there are beauties peculiar not only to the Greek language, but to the climate, to manners and times, which it would be ridiculous to transplant hither. Therefore I have not copied exactly the Electra of Sophocles-much more I knew would be necessary; but I have taken, as well as I could, all the spirit and substance of it."
Author : Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 11,22 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262026201
These essays - written by specialists of different periods and various disciplines - reveal that the division between nature and art has been continually challenged and reassesed in Western thought. Nature and art, the essays suggest, are mutually constructed, defining and redifining themselves.
Author : Steven Moore Whiting
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 49,43 MB
Release : 1999-02-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 0191584525
Erik Satie (1866-1925) came of age in the bohemian subculture of Montmartre, with its artists' cabarets and cafés-concerts. Yet apologists have all too often downplayed this background as potentially harmful to the reputation of a composer whom they regarded as the progenitor of modern French music. Whiting argues, on the contrary, that Satie's two decades in and around Montmartre decisively shaped his aesthetic priorities and compositional strategies. He gives the fullest account to date of Satie's professional activities as a popular musician, and of how he transferred the parodic techniques and musical idioms of cabaret entertainment to works for concert hall. From the esoteric Gymnopédies to the bizarre suites of the 1910s and avant-garde ballets of the 1920s (not to mention music journalism and playwriting), Satie's output may be daunting in its sheer diversity and heterodoxy; but his radical transvaluation of received artistic values makes far better sense once placed in the fascinating context of bohemian Montmartre.
Author : Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 1898
Category : French fiction
ISBN :
Author : Joris-Karl Huysmans
Publisher : Dedalus European Classics
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Jacques' waking reveries and daydreams are balanced by a succession of dreams and nightmares that explore the seemingly irrational, often grotesque, world of unconscious desire, producing a series of images that challenges anything to be found in the fantasies of 'Against Nature', or the Satanic obsessions of 'La-Bas'."