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Philippe Berthier présente Eugénie Grandet d'Honoré de Balzac
UN ESSAI Etude approfondie d'un grand texte classique ou contemporain par un spécialiste de l'œuvre : approche critique originale des multiples facettes du texte dans une présentation claire et rigoureuse. UN DOSSIER Bibliographie, chronologie, variantes, témoignages, extraits de presse. Eclaircissements historiques et contextuels, commentaires critiques récents. UNE ICONOGRAPHIE Des illustrations nombreuses et variées proposent une interprétation visuelle originale. Un ouvrage efficace, élégant. Une nouvelle manière de lire.
Philippe Berthier présente La Chartreuse de Parme de Stendhal
Le 4 novembre 1838, M. Beyle fait consigner sa porte au quatrième étage du 8, rue Caumartin. Le Cerbère de l'immeuble a reçu l'ordre de répondre aux visiteurs éventuels que M. le Consul est à la chasse. Il chasse en effet, mais pas ce qu'on croit. Le 26 décembre, le « tableau » qui couronne et achève cette partie cynégétique si longue et si brève est impressionnant - un épais manuscrit, aussitôt transmis à l'éditeur. On ne peut évidemment, dans un premier mouvement, que partager la stupeur émerveillée de l'opinion reçue devant pareille performance. Qu'un monument d'écriture aussi complexe et puissant ait été bâti en si peu de temps tient assurément de l'exploit, tant physique du reste qu'intellectuel, et assure à Stendhal une place enviable dans le livre des records de la créativité. On songe avec désolation à Flaubert, balançant pendant quinze jours entre deux épithètes, s'exténuant pendant six semaines sur un alinéa, et l'on compare cette sainteté laborieuse et masochiste avec la facilité insolente, provocante, impardonnable au fond, avec laquelle Stendhal s'élance, cravache et brûle la poste.
Memoranda
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Le Baron de Charlus
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The Enterprise of Enlightenment
Published on the occasion of his retirement in honour of his outstanding contribution to French Enlightenment studies, this volume explores those areas of research in which David Williams has excelled and continues to excel: literary criticism, particularly Voltaire, the history of ideas, women and Enlightenment, colonial practices and revolutionary politics. It brings together a collection of essays from some of the most prestigious international names in the field and tackles subjects which expose in all their splendid diversity the enterprise - both innovation and undertaking - of the Siècle des Lumières.
Love and Sexuality
The papers collected in this volume are selected from the proceedings of the Love and Sexuality conference held at the University of Leeds in 2002. They bring together a cross-section of new directions in the study of love and sexuality currently being explored in French Studies. The central focus of the collection is the representation of love, desire, erotica and sexuality in the couple, in particular in relation to depictions of women. The contributions share a common concern with problematising issues of love and sexuality across various disciplines, focusing on literary texts, cinema, gender studies, theatre studies, history, visual iconography and cultural studies, and ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day.
Unacknowledged Legislators
What is the public value of poetry? How do poets envisage their own role and function within society? How do we? Do poets seek to shape public opinion and behaviour? Should they? Or do they offer alternatives—perhaps sacred alternatives—to political and religious ideologies? Are they what Shelley in 1821 called 'the unacknowledged legislators of the World'? And what might that mean? During the decades immediately preceding the Revolution of 1789 the status of contemporary poetry in France was at its lowest ebb. At the same time the perceived power of the writer to influence public events reached a high-water mark with Voltaire's triumphant return to Paris in 1778. In the course of the ne...
The Charterhouse of Parma
The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring. Set at the beginning of the 19th-century in northern Italy, it traces the joyous but ill-starred amorous exploits of a handsome young aristocrat called Fabrice del Dongo. The novel's great achievement is to conjure up the excitement and romance of youth while never losing sight of the harsh realities which beset the pursuit of happiness. This new translation captures Stendhal's narrative verse, while the Introduction explores the novel's reception and the reasons for its enduring popularity and power.
George Sand
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