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"Alphonse Allais has been described as the greatest humorous writer France ever produced, and Jean Cocteau called him 'the prince of storytellers,' yet he has hardly been heard of in England -- for the simple reason that he has never before been translated into English. Because his humour is too French? On the contrary, the French have always felt there was something a little too English about Allais...This selecton of some seventy pieces, translated...
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Marcel Benabou is quick to acknowledge that his own difficulty in writing has had plenty of company. But the frustrations and pleasures can still be felt privately. Words stick and syntax is stubborn, meaning slips and synonyms cluster. A blank page taunts and a full one accuses. Benabou knows the heroic joy of depriving critics of victims, the kindness of sparing publishers decisions, and the public charity of leaving more room in bookstore displays.
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This book is designed primarily for an English-speaking audience of non-specialists, most of whom have not read much of Boileau. The method used has been to study each poem or prose work by means of fairly close textual analysis and paraphrasing of Boileau's own words, with introductory and summary passages to situate the work in relation to contemporary events and the poet's entire production. Biographical information has been held to the minimum...
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"The Delirium of Praise examines a group of five twentieth-century French intellectuals - Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Pierre Klossowski - and their laudatory essays about each other. Structured as a circular series of exchanges, the book examines pairings of two thinkers with respect to a given theme."--Jacket.
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The title of [his] first memoir, A CAB AT THE DOOR, refers to the many times as a boy that he was awakened to find "a cabby and his horse * * * coughing together outside the house and the next thing we knew we were driving to an underground station and to a new house in a new part of London, to the smell of new paint [and] new mice dirts". Given the vicissitudes of his father's business endeavors and his efforts to dodge his creditors, by the time...
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