The love affair as a work of art / Dan Hofstadter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hofstadter, Dan.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, French--19th century--Relations with women.

Authors, French.

Authors, French--19th century--Relations with men.

Authors, French--19th century--Correspondence.

Relations with men.

Relations with women.

Love-letters.

Love in literature.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxi, 314 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Noonday paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Noonday Press, 1997.

Summary:

In this marvelously original book, Dan Hofstadter shows how a great treasure of forgotten personal writing--diaries, memoirs, and letters written by George Sand, Anatole France, and Marcel Proust, among others--bears on the erotic lives of the writers, and how the fine French tradition of conducting love affairs developed as an art form. As his subtle analysis makes clear, the love letters exchanged in a series of highly charged liaisons also suggested the themes of celebrated future novels.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-307) and index.

ISBN:

0374524858

9780374524852

OCLC:

37049785