Monsieur Proust

Monsieur Proust
Author: Céleste Albaret
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2003-10-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781590170595

Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world to devote himself to In Search of Lost Time. She could imitate his voice to perfection, and Proust himself said to her, "You know everything about me." Her reminiscences of her employer present an intimate picture of the daily life of a great writer who was also a deeply peculiar man, while Madame Albaret herself proves to be a shrewd and engaging companion.

Conversations with Cézanne

Conversations with Cézanne
Author: Paul Cézanne
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2001
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520225176

This book gathers the commentary of people who knew the painter Paul Cezanne, especially in his later years. Now seen as one of the most influential of modern painters, in his 40s he returned to his village of Aix-en-Provence where, he worked in near obscurity and with great dedication until his death in 1906.

Stranded

Stranded
Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans
Publisher: Dedalus European Classics
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2010
Genre: 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'."

En Route

En Route
Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans
Publisher:
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1897
Genre: Catholic converts
ISBN:

The Vatard Sisters

The Vatard Sisters
Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: French literature
ISBN: 9781907650536

"The Vatard Sisters brought Huysmans to the notice of the public and revealed him as a man who could paint word-pictures which put earlier practitioners like Gautier and Edmond de Goncourt in the shade...The novel is a story of two working-class sisters, but the main protagonist is Paris, suburban Paris, the Paris of railway stations, cheap restaurants and caf (c)-concerts...and the passages that describe the music-halls and crowds of the Avenue de Maine and the Boulevard Saint Michel, or the railway yard seen from the back window of the sisters' bedroom, have a visual immediacy...a kind of energy, a force of personality, which are utterly unusual in Huysmans' work..." ]Anita Brookner in The Genius of the Future

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Transparency and Obstruction

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Transparency and Obstruction
Author: Jean Starobinski
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 421
Release: 1988
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780226771281

Jean Starobinski, one of Europe's foremost literary critics, examines the life that led Rousseau, who so passionately sought open, transparent communication with others, to accept and even foster obstacles that permitted him to withdraw into himself. First published in France in 1958, "Jean-Jacques Rousseau" remains Starobinski's most important achievement and, arguably, the most comprehensive book ever written on Rousseau. The text has been extensively revised for this edition and is published here along with seven essays on Rousseau that appeared between 1962 and 1970.

Modern Art

Modern Art
Author: Julius Meier-Graefe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 564
Release: 1908
Genre: Aesthetics
ISBN: