Pascal by A J Krailsheimer

Pascal by A J Krailsheimer

Pascal / Condorcet
Date de l'edition originale: 1890-1900
Sujet de l'ouvrage: Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662) -- Biographies
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Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen in 1821, the son of a prominent physician. A solitary child, he was attracted to literature at an early age, and after his recovery from a nervous breakdown suffered while a law student, he turned his total energies to writing. Aside from journeys to the Near East, Greece, Italy, and North Africa, and a stormy liaison with the poetess Louise Colet, his life was dedicated to the practice of his art. The form of his work was marked by intense aesthetic scrupulousness and passionate pursuit of le mot juste; its content alternately reflected scorn for French bourgeois society and a romantic taste for exotic historical subject matter. The success of Madame Bovary (1857) was ensured by government prosecution for immorality; Salammbü¾†˜¼ (1862) and The Sentimental Education (1869) received a cool public reception; not until the publication of Three Tales (1877) was his genius popularly acknowledged. Among fellow writers, however, his reputation was supreme. His circle of friends included Turgenev and the Goncourt brothers, while the young Guy de Maupassant underwent an arduous literary apprenticeship under his direction. Increasing personal isolation and financial insecurity troubled his last years. His final bitterness and disillusion were vividly evidenced in the savagely satiric Bouvard and Pü¾Ž–”¼cuchet, left unfinished at his death in 1880.

Dr. A.J. Krailsheimer was born in 1921 and was Tutor in French at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1957 until his retirement in 1988. His publications are Studies in Self-Interest (1963), Rabelais and the Franciscans (1965), Three Conteurs of the Sixteenth Century (1966), Rabelais (1967), A. J. de Rancü¾Ž–”¼, Abbot of La Trappe (1974), Pascal (1980), Conversion (1980), Letters of A. J. de Rancü¾Ž–”¼ (1984), Rancü¾Ž–”¼ and the Trappist Legacy (1985) and Correspondance de Rancü¾Ž–”¼ (1993). He has also translated Flaubert's Bouvard and Pü¾Ž–”¼cuchet and Salammbo and Pascal's The Provincial Letters for the Penguin Classics.

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ISBN 13	9780192875129
ISBN 10	0192875124
Title	Pascal
Author	A J Krailsheimer
Series	Past Masters Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1980-12-01
Number of pages	96
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