The love affair as a work of art
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1996 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
78,500 words, Guess
Page Count
314 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL809183M
- ISBN-100374192316
- OCLC Control Number33407166
- OCLC Control Numberloveaffairaswork00hofs
- Library of Congress Control Number95045962
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- Goodreads1763676
- LibraryThing237532
Classifications
- DDC848/.70809354
- LCCPQ147.5 .H64 1996
Description
Hofstadter "shows how these rediscovered documents [forgotten personal writing which has resurfaced in France] bear on the erotic lives of their writers, and how the fine French tradition of conducting love affairs developed as an art form....The romantic trajectory runs from Benjamin Constant and Mme. de Staël to the beautiful Mme. Récamier and her lover Chateaubriand; from George Sand and Alfred de Musset to Mme. de Caillavet and Anatole France; and it concludes with a touching portrait, based partly on still-unpublished sources, of the girl who became the model for Proust's Gilberte."--Jacket.
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