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Nausea (Paperback, [New Ed.])
Jean-Paul Sartre; Introduction by James Wood; Translated by Robert Baldick
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Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern times - existentialism. The book chronicles his struggle with the realization that he is an entirely free agent in a world devoid of meaning; a world in which he must find his own purpose and then take total responsibility for his choices. A seminal work of contemporary literary philosophy, Nausea evokes and examines the dizzying angst that can come from simply trying to live.
Robert Baldick's Life of J.-K. Huysmans has become not just a
standard reference work, to be consulted as regularly as the
writing of the author whose life it chronicles, but a work of
literature in its own right. First published fifty years ago,
Baldick's classic biography presents a compelling narrative of
Huysmans' life and work in all its various phases - from the
Naturalism of the 1870s to the Decadence of the 1880s, and from the
occult vogue of the 1890s to the Catholic Revival of the turn of
the century - and it is written with such impeccable scholarship
that it is still relied on today as regards matters of fact and
detail. For this new edition - the first time the biography has
been reprinted in English -Baldick's notes have been extensively
revised and updated by Brendan King to take account of new
developments and publications in the field of Huysmansian studies.
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Hell (Paperback, New edition)
Henri Barbusse; Translated by Robert Baldrick, Robert Baldick
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A novel, translated by Robert Baldick. A young man staying in a
Paris boarding house finds a hole in the wall above his bed.
Alternately voyeur and seer, he obsessively studies the private
moments and secret activities of his neighbors: childbirth, first
love, marriage, betrayal, illness and death all present themselves
to him through this spy hole. Decades ahead of its time, "Hell"
shocked and scandalized the reviewing public when first released in
English in 1866. Even so, the New Republic praised "the beauty of
the book's nervous yet fluid rhythms... The book sweeps, away
life's illusions."
As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love
affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and a young
woman married to a soldier at the front. They meet secretly in her
flat on the outskirts of Paris, in cornfields and on river banks.
When she receives letters from her husband, they burn them
together. Intoxicated by passion, they cannot bear to end their
affair, even when it causes a scandal among their friends and
neighbours. Instead, they hurtle towards tragedy. Written in spare,
haunting prose when Raymond Radiguet was still a teenager, this
semi-autobiographical novel became an instant bestseller and its
author was hailed as a genius before his tragic death at the age of
twenty. Expressing all the anguish and joy of adolescence, it is a
work of startling imagery and subtle beauty. Translated by Robert
Baldick with an introduction by Fay Weldon
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Sentimental Education (Paperback, Revised ed)
Gustave Flaubert; Edited by Geoffrey Wall; Introduction by Robert Baldick; Revised by Geoffrey Wall; Translated by Robert Baldick
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Part love story, part historical novel, part satire, and an
evocative tale youthful passion, Gustave Flaubert's A Sentimental
Education is translated by Robert Baldick and revised with an
introduction by Geoffrey Wall in Penguin Classics. Frederic Moreau
is a law student returning home to Normandy from Paris when he
first notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older
than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last
a lifetime. He befriends her husband, influential businessman
Jacques Arnoux, and their paths cross and re-cross over the years.
Through financial upheaval, political turmoil and countless
affairs, Mme Arnoux remains the constant, unattainable love of
Moreau's life. Flaubert described his sweeping story of a young
man's passions, ambitions and amours as 'the moral history of the
men of my generation'. Based on his own unrequited love for an
older woman, Sentimental Education is one of the greatest French
novels of the nineteenth century. Geoffrey Wall's fresh revision of
Robert Baldick's original translation is accompanied by an
insightful new introduction discussing the personal and historical
influences on Flaubert's writing. This edition also contains a new
chronology, further reading and explanatory notes. Gustave Flaubert
(1821-1880) was born in Rouen. After illness interrupted a career
in law, he retired to live with his widowed mother and devote
himself to writing. Madame Bovary won instant acclaim upon book
publication in 1857, but Flaubert's frank display of adultery in
bourgeois France saw him go on trial for immorality, only narrowly
escaping conviction. Both Salammbo (1862) and The Sentimental
Education (1869) were poorly received, and Flaubert achieved
limited success in his own lifetime - but his fame and reputation
grew steadily after his death. If you enjoyed A Sentimental
Education, you may also enjoy Stephen Vizinczey's In Praise of
Older Women, available in Penguin Modern Classics.
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