Casanova in LondonStein and Day, 1971 - 198 páginas "In the New Statesman, TLS, the Spectator, the New York Times and Harper's Bazaar among others, these short pieces appeared in other forms as book reviews, an introduction, etc. but all of them display Mr. Quennell's immanent virtues -- the well-informed insights so pleasantly styled. There are twenty-five figures, chiefly old with the exception of [Robert] Graves and [Evelyn] Waugh, and from both sides of the Channel. The title essay deals with the indignities Casanova suffered in London in 1763 in the hands and even in the bed of a malicious demi-mondame. There's Victor Hugo and George Sand in the setting sun of old age; [André] Gide, married to a woman who aroused devotion but could not awake desire while [James] Boswell, the dissolute, was anything but faithful; [Daniel] Defoe's transformation of Alexander Selkirk's story; Waugh, the 'greatest novelist' of this generation; that lovable old La Rochefoucauld; and the 'magician of pleasure,' [Guillaume] Apollinaire. One or two unknowns, generally speaking, Anthony Hamilton and [Henry] Mayhew and perhaps the Goncourts whose pursuit of l'art pour l'art is like Quennell's, a rebuke to our own 'slovenly and hall-hearted age.' Even in this minimal form, the essays represent a perfectly proportioned judgment and taste."--Kirkus Reviews. |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-3 de 9
Página 73
... Boswell's London Journal enjoyed a resounding popular success that did not entirely depend upon its literary and biographical merits . The less dissolute , more melancholy personage , re- vealed by Boswell in Holland and by his accounts ...
... Boswell's London Journal enjoyed a resounding popular success that did not entirely depend upon its literary and biographical merits . The less dissolute , more melancholy personage , re- vealed by Boswell in Holland and by his accounts ...
Página 74
... Boswell attended in his last hours ; and the description of the sinister Mrs Rudd , whom he sought out at her London lodgings . ' With how small a speck does a painter give life to an eye ! ' Boswell had al- ready noted ; and in his ...
... Boswell attended in his last hours ; and the description of the sinister Mrs Rudd , whom he sought out at her London lodgings . ' With how small a speck does a painter give life to an eye ! ' Boswell had al- ready noted ; and in his ...
Página 78
... Boswell's roof - where Mrs Boswell finds his slovenly habits extremely annoying and disturbing - and allows himself to be whirled away on an adventurous tour around the Hebrides . It is clear that this Hebridean journey , with all the ...
... Boswell's roof - where Mrs Boswell finds his slovenly habits extremely annoying and disturbing - and allows himself to be whirled away on an adventurous tour around the Hebrides . It is clear that this Hebridean journey , with all the ...
Índice
Acknowledgments | 1 |
The Goncourts | 25 |
Ego Hugo 4555 | 45 |
Direitos de autor | |
8 outras secções não apresentadas
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Palavras e frases frequentes
admirable appeared artist beauty become believed Boswell called century character Charlotte continued critic death described devoted early effect Emily England English existence experience eyes face fact Fair Falstaff feeling felt followed French friends genius George gift girl Graves hand head heart helped hope human imagination interesting Jane John kind later learned least leave less literary lived London looked marriage married master mind natural never notes novelist novels observed once original passion perhaps period play poems poet presently Prince produced published remained remarkable respect romantic secret seems sense sometimes soon story strange street suffered Thackeray thought tion true turn Vanity whole wife Wilde woman women writing wrote young youth