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The Collected Works of Walter Pater: The Collected Works of Walter Pater - Gaston De Latour: Volume 4 (Hardcover)
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The Collected Works of Walter Pater: The Collected Works of Walter Pater - Gaston De Latour: Volume 4 (Hardcover)
Series: Collected Works of Walter Pater
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Gaston De Latour is the first volume in the ten-volume Collected
Works of Walter Pater. Among Victorian writers, Pater (1839-1894)
challenged academic and religious orthodoxies, defended 'the love
of art for its own sake', developed a new genre of prose fiction
(the 'imaginary portrait'), set new standards for intermedial and
cross-disciplinary criticism, and made 'style' the watchword for
creativity and life. Everywhere creating themes and resonances that
span his narrative, the author's voice in Gaston de Latour is
intensely personal; and the reader's experience is intimate, almost
invasive. Although unfinished and first posthumously published in
1896, the novel was hailed by Richard Le Gallienne 'as sensitively
beautiful as in his most perfect work, as rich in delicate colour
and music, and as remarkable for exquisite detail.' This edition
includes six additional suppressed chapters by Pater of varying
degrees of completeness as a continuation of his interrupted
originally-serialized text. This revised text (now a third longer
than the posthumously published edition) appears here accompanied
by a scholarly Introduction, Explanatory Annotation, and Apparatus
Criticus. As it now stands, Pater's never-to-be-completed Gaston de
Latour seems very much to belong to artistic modernism, like a
'conceptual' work of art-an idea not formally actualized but open
to ranges of realization in the process of creation.
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