Madame Du Deffand And Her World - Hardcover

Craveri, Benedetta

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1870015517 ISBN 13: 9781870015516

Verlag: Halban Publishers, 1994

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Reseña del editor:

This biography of Madame du Deffand describes the life of this highly intelligent libertine and the role she played in the social and cultural life of 18th-century France. Quoting extensively from her subject's correspondence, Craveri attempts to relive the world of the "philosophes" of the Enlightment, centred around Voltaire and d'Alembert, and unravels a complex world of extreme intelligence, taste and sensibility, revealing a new view of reality, full of foreboding for the future. Gifted with destructive insight, and dominated by obsessive boredom, Madame du Deffand tended towards cynicism and wariness in her opinion of men, ever-fearful of being disappointed by others. When she became old and blind, she developed a passion for the young English writer Horace Walpole, son of the Prime Minister. The author has been awarded the Viareggio and Comisso prizes in Italy and the Prix de Meilleur Livre Etranger in France for this biography.

Biografía del autor:

A professor of French Literature at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy, Benedetta Craveri was born in Rome and now lives partly in Brussels. (Her husband is a French amabassador to NATO). A frequent contributor to the NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

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• Verlag: Halban Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1870015517
• ISBN 13: 9781870015516
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480