Clarimonde - Couverture souple

Gautier, Theophile

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1606640852 ISBN 13 : 9781606640852

Editeur : Aegypan, 2008

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Translated By Lafcadio Hearn. Show Excerpt very dress might serve as a pall for your coffin. And I felt life rising within me like a subterranean lake, expanding and overflowing; my blood leaped fiercely through my arteries; my long-restrained youth suddenly burst into active being, like the aloe which blooms but once in a hundred years, and then bursts into blossom with a clap of thunder. What could I do in order to see Clarimonde once more? I had no pretext to offer for desiring to leave the seminary, not knowing any person in the city. I would not even be able to remain there but a short time, and was only waiting my assignment to the curacy which I must thereafter occupy. I tried to remove the bars of the window; but it was at a fearful height from the ground, and I found that as I had no ladder it would be useless to think of escaping thus. And, furthermore, I could descend thence only by night in any event, and afterward how should I be able to find my way through the inextricable labyrinth of streets? All these difficulties, which

Biographie de l'auteur :

Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier ; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, art critic and literary critic. While Gautier was an ardent defender of Romanticism, his work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. He was widely esteemed by writers as diverse as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Proust and Oscar Wilde.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Aegypan
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1606640852
• ISBN 13: 9781606640852
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80