The undisputed master of stylistic criticism, Leo Spitzer combined
phenomenal learning in historical and comparative linguistics with
brilliant and original critical insight. He was born in Vienna in
1887. He studied Romance Philology at the Universities of Vienna
and Paris and then taught at Vienna, Bonn, Marburg and Cologne.
After escaping from Germany in 1933, he taught briefly at Istanbul
and then at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He died in
1960. He was the author of over 800 books, articles, reviews and
notes on the language and literatures of France, Spain, Italy,
Portugal, Romania, Germany, England and America from the Middle
Ages to the twentieth century. This translation brings together for
the first time in any language all of Spitzer's work on the
literature of seventeenth-century France, including 'Racine's
classical piano' (1928) and 'Saint-Simon's portrait of Louis XIV'
(1928). Each of the essays demonstrates in practical rather than
theoretical terms the essential unity of literary and linguistic
study. David Bellos's introduction sets Spitzer's method of textual
and stylistic interpretation in its historical context and sketches
out the career of this supremely knowledgeable reader for whom
knowledge was less important than understanding.
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