Love Affair As a Work of Art

Name: Love Affair As a Work of Art
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ISBN: 9781504008136

ISBN-10: 1504008138

ISBN-13: 9781504008136

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Authors: Dan Hofstadter

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This series of entwined biographical sketches recounts how, in the Romantic Era, love affairs, often illicit, were transformed into novels, memoirs, and published correspondences. We make the intimate acquaintance of great writers like Mme de Staël, Chateaubriand, George Sand, and Anatole France, who, however, fall gradually under the suspicion of pursuing their amorous entanglements for "good material." The tale ends with a moving account, based on unpublished sources, of the strange, intense friendship of Marcel Proust and Jeanne Pouquet, the girl who became the model for Gilberte in Swann's Way. Disenchanted yet compassionate, this book explores how our affections may be exalted (and at…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Publication date: 4/7/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 298
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Dan Hofstadter is the author of The Earth Moves and Falling Palace: A Romance of Naples (a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir). He has lived in Florence and Naples and speaks and reads Italian fluently. He lives in Rensselaerville, New York.