Love Affair as a Work of Art

English

ISBN: 0374524858

EAN: 9780374524852

Category: Family & Relationships / Love & Romance/Family & Relationships / Interpersonal Relations/Social Science / Customs & Traditions/

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Release Date: 06/20/1997

Synopsis: In this marvelously original book, Dan Hofstadter shows how a great treasure of forgotten personal writingdiaries, memoirs, and letters written by George Sand, Anatole France, and Marcel Proust, among othersbears on the erotic lives of the writers, and how the fine French tradition of conducting love affairs developed as an art form. As his subtle analysis makes clear, the love letters exchanged in a series of highly charged liaisons also suggested the themes of celebrated future novels.

Awards: National Book Critics Circle Awards – null 

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Love Affair as a Work of Art

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.76 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.5 inches

Weight: 13.79 oz

Pages: 336