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Author
Publisher
Hesperus
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Written in the tongue-in-cheek manner for which he was famous, Monsieur de Voltaire' s memoirs reveal a new perspective on the international politics and history of the 18th century. Voltaire's role as acclaimed author, poet, dramatist, and philosopher led him to experience the personal attentions of the most illustrious men and women of his time. His irreverent, to say the least, portrayals of the leading figures of the day provide a hilarious portrait...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A dual biography of the two most influential socio-political moralists of the twentieth century, whose lives were intertwined personally and intellectually for more than forty-six years. Madsen provides an engrossing view of the luminously transparent relationship that was unconventional yet faithful to its ideals. ".
Author
Publisher
The Lilliput Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"'Despite his deep sense of privacy, Beckett's persona has been so widely written about that it has become unavoidably mixed up in our imagination with what Bernold calls his "creatures". Whether or not Barthes and Foucault were right to dismiss the figure of the author, when confronted with Vladimir wincing or Krapp hunched over his tape recorder or Molloy resting on his bicycle, one's mind always seems to turn to the "gentle mask" placed over the...
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