New York Review Books, Belletristik, My Fantoms (Englisch, THEOPHILE GAUTIER, 2008)
21,50 €
Romantic provocateur, flamboyant bohemian, precocious novelist, perfect poet— not to mention an inexhaustible journalist, critic, and man-about-town— Thé ophile 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 Gautier’ s career into a unified work that captures the essence of his adventurous life and subtle art. From the erotic awakening of “ The Adolescent” through “ The Poet,” a piercing recollection of the mad genius Gé rard de Nerval, the great friend of Gautier’ s 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. ” What ever would the Devil find to do in Paris?” Gautier wonders. “ He would meet people just as diabolical as he, and find himself taken for some naï ve provincial… ” Tapestries, statues, and corpses come to life young men dream their way into ruin and Gautier keeps his faith in the power of imagination: “ No one is truly dead, until they are no longer loved.”.
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