· As translator Richard Holmes explains in the introduction to his anthology of Gautier's fiction, "My Fantoms" (NYRB Classics, pages, $14), ghost stories had long been disdained by the French, and Gautier's great literary accomplishment was to adopt the material of writers such as E.T.A. Hoffmann () for a French audience. Apparitions and reality, dreams and consciousness, the sacred and the profane, love and longing -- are facets of seven stories by Théophile Gautier () gathered and translated from the French by English scholar Richard Holmes. My Fantoms was first published in in England and only recently reissued (July ) in the United States/5(11). Review of My Fantoms by Théophile Gautier, translated by Richard HolmesRecommended if you like:French poetry (Hugo, Baudelaire)Gerard de Nerval (the finale s.
Title: My Fantoms Item Condition: used item in a good condition. Author: Gautier, Theophile ISBN Publisher: Quartet Books SKU: Published On: Binding: Paperback. Contents are clean and bright throughout with no markings. Portrait of Théophile Gautier by Nadar a face like a double bed on a Sunday morning The photographer Felix Nadar made portraits of him, perhaps like us, drawn to a face described as ' like a double bed on a Sunday morning' (Richard Holmes, Introduction to My Fantoms, pg x). Theophile Gautier - short stories. Octo at pm (Uncategorized) (Gautier, short stories) The Parisian Dandy and acclaimed wordsmith Theophile Gautier () was a little before the time of Decadence, and he never really identified himself with the movement despite a friendship with, and admiration of, Charles Baudelaire.
Review of My Fantoms by Théophile Gautier, translated by Richard HolmesRecommended if you like:French poetry (Hugo, Baudelaire)Gerard de Nerval (the finale s. this is an absolutely fantastic book of seven supernatural stories by theophile gautier. kudos to nyrb for putting this book out, along with the dozens of other fabulous titles they have published, many of them quite obscure. while these aren't really ghost stories; demons, devils and spirits abound. and one of the stories, the priest, must surely be one of the first stories to mention vampires, as it was written in bram stoker's dracula, by comparison, didn't come out until the. Like. “Tear up that funeral shroud—you are going to smother yourself in it. I am beauty, I am youth, I am life—come to me, and together we will be Love www.doorway.ru life together will flow by like a dream, and it will be as one perpetual kiss.”. ― Théophile Gautier, My Fantoms. 4 likes.
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