Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Henri de Lacretelle correspondence, between circa 1865 and 1899
Letter, dated 1865, June 16, to unnamed male friend asking a favor, with accompanying newspaper clipping, dated 1899, February 18, announcing Lacretelle's death; brief note, dated August 19, (no year), regarding the approval and performance of a production at Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin and notes on pages 3,19, 25, 36 and 37 of the play, with accompanying biographical note.
Proust, a Jewish Way
Marcel Proust once wrote, “There is no longer anybody, not even myself, since I cannot leave my bed, who will go along the Rue du Repos to visit the little Jewish cemetery where my grandfather, following a custom that he never understood, went for so many years to lay a stone on his parents’ grave.” Investigating the origin and significance of this statement, Antoine Compagnon offers new insight into the great author’s underappreciated Jewish side. Compagnon traces Proust’s ties to the French Jewish community, examining his relations with his mother’s successful and assimilated family, the Weils. He explores how French Jews read and responded to Proust’s masterpiece In Search o...
