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The Love Affair as a Work of Art
Dan Hofstadter
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| #4478552 in Books | 1997-06-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.76 x5.50l,.84 | File type: PDF | 336 pages||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| charming|By m-starr|This is an unusual book: it has no pretense of scholarly contribution, yet is delightfully literary in a refreshingly casual way. Hofstadter delves insightfully and amusingly into the dynamics of love affairs between literary figures in 19th century France. He explores, sometimes speculatively but never reductively, how these figures' characters and backgrou|From Publishers Weekly|Many French literary figures of the 19th century thought of the love affair as an art form, yet as this deliciously gossipy study reveals, lovers' shared dreams often did not jibe with messy reality. George Sand agonized at being caught up
In this marvelously original book, Dan Hofstadter shows how a great treasure of forgotten personal writing—diaries, memoirs, and letters written by George Sand, Anatole France, and Marcel Proust, among others—bears on the erotic lives of the writers, and how the fine French tradition of conducting love affairs developed as an art form. As his subtle analysis makes clear, the love letters exchanged in a series of highly charged liaisons also suggested the...
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