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  • 1
    Book
    Book
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press
    UID:
    b3kat_BV003216944
    Format: XII, 443 Seiten , 23 cm
    ISBN: 0691062870 , 9780691617602
    Note: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke der Pinceton Legacy Library , Subject: Taking an approach different from that of earlier biographers, A. Owen Aldridge examines Voltaire's literary and intellectual career chronologically, using the methods both of comparative literature and of the history of ideas. The resulting biography portrays a fascinating personality as well as a great writer and thinker. Voltaire is revealed not only through his correspondence, here extensively quoted, but through the statements others made about him in anecdotes, memoirs, and other contemporary documents. Subject: New information is introduced regarding Voltaire's sojourn in England, his later relations with English men of letters, his domestic turmoils at the court of Frederick the Great, and his contact with French contemporaries such as Montesquieu and Diderot. For the first time in any biography, attention is given to Voltaire's extensive knowledge of Spanish literature and its influence on his own work, particularly Candide. Voltaire is portrayed as a conscious participant in the Enlightenment. In his early years he was interested primarily in aesthetics and abstract philosophy; later, he passionately dedicated himself to humanitarian causes with ideological implications. Professor Aldridge brings forward evidence pointing to the contrast between these two periods in Voltaire's life. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Subjects: Romance Studies
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    Keywords: Voltaire 1694-1778 ; Aufklärung ; Biografie
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  • 2
    Book
    Book
    London u.a. : Picador
    UID:
    b3kat_BV009777535
    Format: XVII, 521 S. , Ill.
    Edition: 1. publ.
    ISBN: 0330332376
    Content: This is the first major English biography of Balzac for over fifty years. The living manifestation of the colourful and varied world he described, yet at the same time its most astonishing exception, Balzac is the perfect subject for biography. He was a relentless seducer whose successes were as spectacular as his catastrophes; a passionate collector, inventor, explorer and political campaigner; a mesmerizing story-teller with the power to make his fantasies come true. Graham Robb takes us through his early literary disappointments, his struggle against poverty, and the lurid commercial novels in which he learnt his trade. Robb shows how Balzac's craving for wealth, fame, and happiness produced a series of hare-brained entrepreneurial schemes which took him to the remotest parts of Europe, a love affair with a Polish countess whom he courted for fifteen years by correspondence, and some of the finest novels in the Realist tradition.
    Language: English
    Subjects: Romance Studies
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    Keywords: Balzac, Honoré de 1799-1850 ; Biografie ; Biografie
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  • 3
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    London : I.B. Tauris
    UID:
    gbv_1738899500
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 238 Seiten)
    ISBN: 0755600088 , 9780755600090 , 9780755600076 , 9781838601607 , 9780755600083
    Series Statement: Communist Lives
    Content: Cover -- Halftitle -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The End -- 2 The Beginning -- 3 Schooldays in Sardinia -- 4 University in Turin -- 5 The Working Journalist -- 6 Into the Struggle: L'Ordine Nuovo and the Factory Councils -- 7 Gramsci the Communist -- 8 At Serebranyi Bor -- 9 At the Hotel Lux, Moscow, 1923 -- 10 A Viennese Interlude -- 11 Leader by Default -- 12 A Brief Return to Sardinia -- 13 The Third Schucht Sister -- 14 The Schuchts Come to Rome -- 15 First Confinement -- 16 The Trials Begin -- 17 Settling in at Turi Di Bari -- 18 Further Torments
    Content: 19 Für Ewig: A New Sense of Purpose -- 20 Visitations and Vocations -- 21 Sinking Deeper -- 22 Healing Through Work -- 23 Final Years -- Postscript: The Afterlives of Antonio Gramsci -- Notes -- Select Bibliography of Works In English by or about Gramsci -- Index -- Imprint
    Content: "A historical biography of the Italian philosopher/politician Antonio Gramsci (1891-1973), considered one of the most important Marxist philosophers of the twentieth-century. As part of the Communist Lives series, Andrew Pearmain explores the life of Gramsci from his childhood, to his role in the newly formed Communist Party of Italy, and to his imprisonment and death in Turi di Bari, using recent archival research including material released by the Gramsci and Schucht family."--
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781838601607
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781838601614
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Pearmain, Andrew Antonio Gramsci London : I.B. Tauris, 2020 ISBN 9781838601607
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781838601614
    Language: English
    Subjects: Romance Studies
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    Keywords: Electronic books ; Biografie
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  • 4
    UID:
    gbv_1820643204
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 268 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789004521070
    Series Statement: Faux titre Volume 457
    Content: "English summary: Perec's Lieux project consists of texts describing the author's places of memory, photographs, personal documents and ephemera collected in the street. With this vast and fascinating body of work, Perec aimed at anchoring his biography in urban space. Georges Perec et ses lieux de mémoire is the first book length study about this "mythic book", which remained unpublished for a long time. It explores Perec's recurrent themes, writing practises, graphisms and photographs, showing the impact of classical rhetoric on his methodology, which makes Lieux into a topics of his places of memory. "This study is precisely situated within an abundant critical field. It strikes the reader through its finesse and novelty both regarding Perec's work, which has become a classic, and more largely the importance of the urban every day in contemporary literature and art." (Christelle Reggiani). French summary: Textes décrivant ses lieux de mémoire, photographies, documents personnels ou collectés dans la rue : Lieux forme un vaste et passionnant ensemble par lequel Perec visait à ancrer son autobiographie dans l'espace urbain. Georges Perec et ses lieux de mémoire est la première étude monographique à se fonder sur l'ensemble de ce "livre mythique", resté longtemps inédit. Elle en explore les constantes thématiques, les pratiques d'écriture, les graphismes et les photographies, montrant l'impact de la rhétorique classique sur la méthode de Perec, qui fait que ces textes sont une véritable topique de ses lieux de mémoire. 'Précisément situé dans un champ critique exhaustivement balisé, le livre frappe par sa finesse et sa nouveauté - quant à l'œuvre de Perec, aujourd'hui devenue classique, mais aussi plus largement pour ce qui est de l'importance du quotidien, notamment urbain, dans la littérature et l'art contemporains' (Christelle Reggiani)"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Lieux dans tous ses états. Genèse et devenir du projet -- Lectures critiques de Lieux -- Microlectures. Gaités -- Joie et mélancolie d'une archive urbaine -- La photographie dans Lieux -- Autour de la rue Vilin -- Éclairages sur les Souvenirs. Lieux: une œuvre (de) rhétorique -- Le travail de la mémoire dans les Souvenirs -- Les lieux de l'écriture.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9789004510548
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Schulte Nordholt, Annelies, 1960 - Georges Perec et ses lieux de mémoire Leiden : Brill, 2022 ISBN 9789004510548
    Language: English
    Subjects: Romance Studies
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    Keywords: Perec, Georges 1936-1982 ; Paris ; Literatur ; Erinnerung
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  • 5
    Book
    Book
    New York [u.a.] : Little, Brown
    UID:
    b3kat_BV021599786
    Format: 628 S., [8] Bl. , Ill.
    Edition: 1. ed.
    ISBN: 0316118788 , 9780316118781
    Content: "Gustave Flaubert, whose Madame Bovary outraged the right-thinking bourgeoisie when it was first published in 1856, is brought to life here in all his singularity and brilliance. Frederick Brown's portrayal is of an artist fraught with contradictions, his wit and bravado merging into vulnerability. A sedentary man by nature, Flaubert undertook epic voyages through Egypt and the Middle East. He could be flamboyantly uncouth but was fanatically devoted to beautifully cadenced prose. While energized by his camaraderie with male friends, who included Turgenev, the Goncourt brothers, Zola, and Maupassant, he depended for emotional nurture upon maternal women, notably George Sand. His assorted mistresses - French, Egyptian, and English - fed his richly erotic imagination and found their way into his fictional characters." "Flaubert's time and place caused him to be literally put on trial for portraying lewd behavior in Madame Bovary. His milieu also made him a celebrity and, indirectly, brought about his financial ruin, probably hastening his sudden death at the age of fifty-nine. Although writing was something like torture for him, it preoccupied his mind and dominated his life. He privately dreamed of popular success, which he in fact achieved with Madame Bovary, but adamantly refused to sacrifice to it his ideal of artistic integrity."--BOOK JACKET.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Language: English
    Subjects: Romance Studies
    RVK:
    Keywords: Flaubert, Gustave 1821-1880 ; Biografie
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  • 6
    UID:
    b3kat_BV047421531
    Format: 282 Seiten , Illustrationen, Porträts, Faksimiles , 19 cm
    Edition: 1st edition
    ISBN: 9789896714772
    Note: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke , Vom der Rückseite des Buchumschlags: "The Poet with Many Faces is the first biography of Fernando Pessoa in English. Written in the early 1970s by Hubert D. Jennings, the book was intended for publication in 1974, when the Carnation Revolution in Portugal interrupted the editorial plans. The once lost typescript is finally made available to the public, together with an anthology of 30 poems in English by Pessoa and his heteronyms, translated and complied by Jennings."
    Language: English
    Subjects: Romance Studies
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    Keywords: Pessoa, Fernando 1888-1935 ; Biografie
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  • 7
    UID:
    b3kat_BV008377866
    Format: 258 S.
    ISBN: 0820421669
    Series Statement: Ibérica 9
    Uniform Title: Astrólogo fingido
    Content: In the early 1620's, the famous Spanish playwright, Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca, wrote a delightful and suspenseful comedia, The Fake Astrologer, which gained great favor and popularity all over Europe. In fact, there are at least eighteen adaptations of this play in French, English, Italian, Dutch, German, and Spanish some by no lesser authors than John Dryden and Voltaire
    Content: The present work represents the complete "literary biography" of this much-traveled play, including the critical Spanish text, a faithful, modern, rhymed English translation, and a study of the adaptations. A critical appreciation of the comedia will allow the reader to understand how a typical baroque cloak and sword play of the Spanish Golden Age was transmuted to please audiences and readers with different national tastes and preferences
    Content: It is hoped that in its present modern English version and with its complete commentary it will prove of equal appeal to the aficionado of good theatre, the student of comparative literature, the Spanish Golden Age specialist, and the larger reading public
    Language: Spanish
    Subjects: Romance Studies
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    Keywords: Calderón de la Barca, Pedro 1600-1681 El astrólogo fingido ; Textgeschichte ; Hochschulschrift
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  • 8
    UID:
    gbv_1776400305
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 393 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    ISBN: 9781800103603 , 9781800103597
    Series Statement: Tamesis companions
    Content: The first comprehensive study of Calderón in English.
    Content: Front Cover -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 - Biography and Context -- 2 - The Calderonian World -- 3 - The Playwright's Craft -- 4 - La vida es sueño -- 5 - The Honour Plays of Calderón -- 6 - Calderón, the Comedian -- 7 - Mythological Court Spectacle Plays -- 8 - Religious comedias -- 9 - Calderón's 'Sacramental, Allegorical and Historical' autos -- 10 - Calderón's graciosos -- 11 - Calderón and Visual Art -- 12 - The Staging of Calderón's Theatre -- 13 - Calderón's European Reception -- 14 - The Reception of Calderón in the Hispanic World -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Consolidated Bibliography -- Index -- Tamesis Companions.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [335]-374
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781855663152
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe A companion to Calderón de la Barca Woodbridge : Tamesis, 2021 ISBN 9781855663152
    Additional Edition: ISBN 1855663155
    Language: English
    Subjects: Romance Studies
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    Keywords: Calderón de la Barca, Pedro 1600-1681
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    Author information: Norton, Roy 1977-
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  • 9
    Book
    Book
    Princeton : Princeton University Press
    UID:
    gbv_1691473685
    Format: xx, 425 Seiten , Illustrationen
    ISBN: 9780691197876
    Content: This will be the first proper biography of an important figure in late twentieth-century French literature. Nathalie Sarraute was known primarily in connection with the nouveau roman of the 1960s and 1970s, and latterly as the author of Childhood, an autobiography which was later dramatised on Broadway. She was born into a Jewish family in Russia at the beginning of the century before making her way to a new identity and a literary career in Paris. She was the author of 12 novels, six plays (still in the repertoire), and a cluster influential critical essays, and her life spanned the events and upheavals of the century: Russian revolutionaries, émigré society in Paris, women's education and their access to the professions, notably law and the French literary institution, anti-Semitism, the Occupation and her own hiding under Vichy, Sartre and Les Temps modernes, the nouveau roman, May 68, and much else. She was an unusually cosmopolitan figure, spoke excellent English, and maintained friendships with several Anglo-American figures (Maria and Eugene Jolas, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, etc.) The thread that runs through Sarraute's long life, as through her writing, is the issue of place and belonging: as the child in two step-families after her parents divorced, as a Russian émigré in France, as an assimilated Jew in French bourgeois society, as a woman in a man's world (law and literature), and as the ambivalent associate of two major literary groupings (Sartre and the nouveau roman). No biography currently exists and this will be the first. Based on archival material (including the Fonds Nathalie Sarraute in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris) as well as on private papers that have remained in the family, and interviews with many people who knew her, it offers a fascinating account of the lived and very varied context in which Nathalie Sarraute's work was produced and took form
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780691201924
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Jefferson, Ann, 1949 - Nathalie Sarraute Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2020 ISBN 9780691201924
    Language: English
    Subjects: Romance Studies
    RVK:
    Keywords: Sarraute, Nathalie 1900-1999 ; Biografie
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  • 10
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    New York, NY : Columbia University Press
    UID:
    gbv_1761841246
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 240 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9780231553599
    Content: Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels achieved stunning global success in part because of the mystery surrounding their pseudonymous author. English-speaking readers were tantalized by her enigmatic biography as well as what they took to be her authentic portrayal of working-class Naples. However, we now know that the person behind the writing is most likely Anita Raja, a prominent translator of German literature whose background is very different from Ferrante's supposed life.In Finding Ferrante, Alessia Ricciardi revisits questions about Ferrante's identity to show how the problem of authorship is deeply intertwined with the novels' literary ambition and politics. Going beyond the local and national cultures of Naples and Italy, Ricciardi reads Ferrante's fiction as world literature, foregrounding Raja's work as a translator. She examines the novels' engagement with German literature and criticism, particularly Goethe, Walter Benjamin, and Christa Wolf, while also tracing the influence of Italian thinkers such as Antonio Gramsci, Carla Lonzi, and the Milan Women's Bookstore Collective. Considering central questions of sexuality, work, politics, and place, Ricciardi demonstrates how intertextual resonances reshape our understanding of Lila and Elena, the protagonists of the Neapolitan Quartet, as well as the characters and language of Ferrante's other books.This bold reconsideration of one of today's most acclaimed authors reveals Ferrante's works as fiercely intellectual, showing their deep concern with feminist and cultural politics and the ethical and political stakes of literature
    Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780231200400
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780231200417
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe Ricciardi, Alessia Finding Ferrante New York : Columbia University Press, 2021 ISBN 9780231200417
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780231200400
    Language: English
    Subjects: Romance Studies
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    Keywords: Ferrante, Elena 1943-
    URL: Cover
    URL: Cover
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