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Journal 1887-1910 (Paperback)
Jules Renard; Translated by Theo Cuffe; Introduction by Julian Barnes
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R553
R463
Discovery Miles 4 630
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'As a mayor, I am responsible for the upkeep of rural roads; as
poet, I prefer to see them neglected.' Jules Renard was a French
literary figure of the late nineteenth century. Not a Parisian but
a committed countryman, he was elected mayor in 1904 of the tiny
village of Citry-le-Mines in a remote part of northern Burgundy. He
had the soul of a rustic bourgeois but the ambition of a
metropolitan, and his wife's money allowed him to move in elevated
circles, though he seemed an awkward customer, a badger, and looked
like one. He wrote fiction, journalism and drama, very
successfully, but the Journal is Renard's masterpiece, the least
categorizable work of the French fin de siecle. The Journal
constitutes a profusion of entries, without stitching or pattern:
mordant reflections on style, literature and theatre; portraits of
family, friends and the Parisian literary scene;
quasi-ethnographical observations on village life and notations of
the natural world which are unlike anything except themselves.
Samuel Beckett spoke of Renard in the same breath as Proust and
Celine, wrote of the Journal that 'for me it is as inexhaustible as
Boswell ' and believed his style was learnt from despair. Gide said
the Journal was 'not a river but a distillery'. Sartre wrote that
'He invented the literature of silence'. But above all it is a
moving and splintery piece of self-scrutiny. Julian Barnes has
admired the Journal for many years and has made this new selection
from the twelve hundred page Pleiade edition. Theo Cuffe's
translation will help bring this fierce judge of human foibles to a
new generation of readers.
'As a mayor, I am responsible for the upkeep of rural roads; as
poet, I prefer to see them neglected.' Jules Renard was a French
literary figure of the late nineteenth century. Not a Parisian but
a committed countryman, he was elected mayor in 1904 of the tiny
village of Citry-le-Mines in a remote part of northern Burgundy. He
had the soul of a rustic bourgeois but the ambition of a
metropolitan, and his wife's money allowed him to move in elevated
circles, though he seemed an awkward customer, a badger, and looked
like one. He wrote fiction, journalism and drama, very
successfully, but the Journal is Renard's masterpiece, the least
categorizable work of the French fin de siecle. The Journal
constitutes a profusion of entries, without stitching or pattern:
mordant reflections on style, literature and theatre; portraits of
family, friends and the Parisian literary scene;
quasi-ethnographical observations on village life and notations of
the natural world which are unlike anything except themselves.
Samuel Beckett spoke of Renard in the same breath as Proust and
Celine, wrote of the Journal that 'for me it is as inexhaustible as
Boswell ' and believed his style was learnt from despair. Gide said
the Journal was 'not a river but a distillery'. Sartre wrote that
'He invented the literature of silence'. But above all it is a
moving and splintery piece of self-scrutiny. Julian Barnes has
admired the Journal for many years and has made this new selection
from the twelve hundred page Pleiade edition. Theo Cuffe's
translation will help bring this fierce judge of human foibles to a
new generation of readers.
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Nature Stories (Paperback)
Nik Marcel; Translated by Nik Marcel; Jules Renard
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R202
Discovery Miles 2 020
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