My Fantoms

Name: My Fantoms
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ISBN: 9781590172711

ISBN-10: 159017271X

ISBN-13: 9781590172711

Edition: 2008

Authors: Theophile Gautier, Richard Holmes

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Théophile Gautier is a dominant figure in nineteenth-century French literature and a complex and alluring one. No one so epitomized the “Bohemian artist” as this friend of Victor Hugo and Baudelaire who is credited with coining the slogan “Art for Art’s Sake.” At the same time, Gautier was one of the first French professional men of letters, a masterful journalist as well as an inspired proponent of the short story. Seven samples of Gautier’s genius–all exploring themes of love and death–have been brought together inMyFantoms, a book that brilliantly illuminates the subtlety and range of his singular imagination. Compiled and translated by Richard Holmes, whose investigations into the…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 8/5/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Théophile Gautier(1811–1872) was one of the key poets of the French nineteenth century.Norman R. Shapirois professor of Romance languages and literatures at Wesleyan University and an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Richard Holmes is the author of Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer; Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage; Shelley: The Pursuit; Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804; and Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834, which was a 1999 New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and a National Book Critics Circle Awards finalist. He lives in England.