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Serge Doubrovsky
Serge Doubrovsky (1928-2017)

translator, literary critic, teacher

  • Ɖcole Normale SupĆ©rieure, LycĆ©e Condorcet

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Autobiographiques
The new criticism in France
Pourquoi la nouvelle critique
La place de la madeleine
Corneille et la dialectique du héros
Writing & Fantasy in Proust
Parcours critique
Pourquoi la nouvelle critique; critique et objectivité
L' apreĢs-vivre
Le Livre Brise
LaisseĢ pour conte
La vie l'instant
Critica e oggettivitaĢ€
La Dispersion
Un amour de soi
Fils
Un homme de passage
Proust et le texte producteur
Pourquoi la nouvelle critique; critique et objectivité
Le livre brisé
Pourquoi Doubrovsky?
Autofictions & Cie
On Amour de soi
Le jour S
The new criticism in France
Corneille Et La Dialectique Du Heros
Pourquoi la nouvelle critique
Stephen Vizinczey
Stephen Vizinczey (1933-2021)

literary critic

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In praise of older women
An innocent millionaire
Truth and lies in literature
The rules of chaos
In praise of older women
Eloge des femmes mures
En Brazos de La Mujer Madura (Ave Fenix)
In Praise of Older Woman
Éloge des femmes mûres
Verdad Y Mentiras En La Literatura / Truth and Lies in Literature (El Dia Siguiente / the Next Day)
The man with the magic touch
El Hombre del Toque Magico
W hołdzie dojrzałym kobietom
Un Millonario Inocente
En Brazos de La Mujer Madura
Il candido miliardario
Un millionnaire innocent
Verdad y Mentiras En La Literatura
Patrick Grainville
Patrick Grainville (born 1947)

literary critic

  • Paris-Sorbonne University - Paris IV, LycĆ©e Henri-IV

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The cave of heaven
La caverne ceĢleste
Le tyran eĢternel
L' orgie, la neige
Le dernier Viking
L'Atlantique et les Amants
Les forteresses noires
La lisieĢ€re
Richard Texier
L' ombre de la bête
La joie d'Aurélie
Le jour de la fin du monde, une femme me cache
La Diane rousse
Les anges et les faucons
La main blessée
ColeĢ€re
Le lien
Le paradis des orages
LumieĢ€re du rat
Les flamboyants
L' ardent deĢsir
L' atelier du peintre
Tony SoulieĢ
La\Lisiere
Zorn
L' abiĢ‚me
LoueĢ€din
Images du désir
La toison
Le nu foudroyé
Bison
Falaise des fous
Les Flacons de la séduction. L'art du parfum au XVIIIe siècle
Les flamboyants
Le baiser de la pieuvre
Le paradis des orages
Le corps immense du président Mao
Ludwig Börne
Ludwig Bƶrne (1786-1837)

poet, literary critic, poet lawyer, journalist

  • University of Giessen

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Spiegelbild des Lebens
Briefwechsel des jungen Börne und der Henriette Herz
Börne der Zeitgenosse
Briefe aus Paris
Berliner Briefe, 1828
Kritische Schriften
Ludwig Börne zum zweihundertsten Geburtstag
Gesammelte Schriften
Briefe des jungen Börne an Henriette Herz
Ludwig Börnes gesammelte Schriften
Monographie der deutschen Postschnecke
BoĢˆrne brevier
Gesammelte Schriften von Ludwig BoĢˆrne
Ludwig Börne
Menzel, der Franzosenfresser
Ludwig BoĢˆrne's saĢˆmmtliche Werke ..
Ludwig Börne -- Jeanette Wohl Briefwechsel (1818-1824)
Börnes Werke in zwei Bänden
Sämtliche Schriften
Werke in zwei BaĢˆnden
Schriften zur deutschen Literatur
Ludwig Börne's gesammelte Schriften
Der Narr im weissen Schwan
Börnes Werke
Werke
Menzel der Franzosenfresser und andere. Schriften
Börne der Zeitgenosse
Der roman
Leben ist Differenz
Spiegelbild des Lebens
La Balance
Werke in zwei Bänden
Französische Schriften
Zeitschwingen
Ludwig Börne's urtheil über H. Heine
Briefwechsel des jungen Börne und der Henriette Herz
Ludwig Börne und Frankfurt am Main
Börnes Werke in zwei Bänden
Ludwig Börne 1786-1837
Menzel, der Franzosenfresser
Briefe aus Paris
Briefe aus Frankfurt
Gesammelte schriften
Börnes Werke
Nachgelassene schriften
ha-Yehudi ha-nitsįø„i
Das Staatspapier des Herzens
Études sur l'histoire et les hommes de la Révolution française
Franco Fortini
Franco Fortini (1917-1994)

poet, linguist, literary critic, politician, translator

  • University of Florence

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Una volta per sempre
Un giorno o l'altro
Dialoghi col Tasso
The Dogs Of The Sinai
Franco Fortini
Il dolore della verità
Verifica dei poteri
Le rose dell'abisso
Extrema ratio
Franchi dialoghi
Un dialogo ininterrotto
Il movimento surrealista
Simmer is Not All
I poeti del Novecento
I cani del Sinai
Versi scelti
Paesaggio con serpente
Questioni di frontiera
La poesia ad alta voce
Fortini
Nuovi saggi italiani
Asia maggiore
Breve secondo Novecento
Il dolore della verità
Realtà e Paradosso della Traduzione Poetica
Dieci inverni
Poems
Foglio di via e altri versi
Dei confini della poesia
Foglio di via
Attraverso Pasolini
Profezie e realtaĢ€ del nostro secolo
Indici per Fortini
Summer is not all
Diario tedesco 1949
Sere in Valdossola
Saggi italiani
Disobbedienze
Ventiquattro voci per un dizionario di lettere
Giovanni e le mani
Les chiens du Sinai
L'ospite ingrato
Poesie scelte (1938-1973)
Gli Intellettuali in trincea
Tre testi per film
Tradizione, traduzione, società
Conversazione su Il dubbio dei vincitori
La cena delle ceneri ; &, Racconto fiorentino
Poesia e errore
L' ospite ingrato
Questo muro
Carteggio 1959-1993
Una volta per sempre, 1958-1962
Paessagio con serpente
Non solo oggi
Una volta per sempre, 1958-1962
Memorie per dopo domani
Diario tedesco
Lezioni sulla traduzione
Insistenze
Saggi ed epigrammi
Poesia ed errore, 1937-1957
Una obbedienza
Questo muro, 1962-1972
Una obbedienza
L'ospite ingrato
Poesie scelte
Agonía di Natale
Composita solvantur
Così anche noi in un'eco
Il Movimento surrealista
Foglio di via e altri versi
Edmund Gosse
Edmund Gosse (1849-1928)

poet, librarian, literary critic, art historian, translator, literary historian

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Father and son
Critical kit-kats
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
Coventry Patmore
Portraits and sketches
Northern studies
Silhouettes
Henrik Ibsen
Gray
The Jacobean poets
Life of William Congreve
Sir Thomas Browne
Studies in the literature of Northern Europe
The life of Algernon Charles Swinburne
Seventeenth century studies
A history of eighteenth century literature (1660-1780)
Books on the table
Gossip in a library
From Shakespeare to Pope
More books on the table
A short history of modern English literature
Aspects and impressions
Jeremy Taylor
Leaves and fruit
On viol and flute
Father and son, a study of two temperaments
French profiles
French profiles
The naturalist of the sea-shore
Raleigh
English odes
Sir Henry Doulton: the man of business as a man of imagination
NORTHERN STUDIES
French profiles
Seventheenth-century studies
In russet & silver
The secret of Narcisse
The future of English poetry
Firdausi in exile, and other poems
Father and son
King Erik
Malherbe and the classical reaction in the seventeenth century
Questions at issue
Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France
A history of eighteenth century literature (1600-1780)
Inter arma
The life and letters of John Donne, dean of St. Paul's
Robert Browning; personalia
Portraits from life
The Life & Letters of John Donne
Robert Browning
On Viol and Flute
Hypolympia
The life of Philip Henry Gosse, F.R.S
Ibsen
The unequal yoke (1886)
The Unfortunate Traveler Or, The Life Of John Wilton
The life of Philip Henry Gosse ..
The continuity of literature
America: the diary of a visit, winter 1884-1885
The continuity of literature, presidential addresses, 1922
Silhouettes
Two visits to Denmark 1872, 1874
The life of Algernon Charles Swinburne
Firdausi in exile
Life and writings of William Congreve
The library of Edmund Gosse
Modern English literature
New poems
Henrik Ibsen / by Edmund Gosse, with essays on Ibsen by Edward Dowden and James Huneker
Two visits to Denmark
Selected essays
Some diversions of a man of letters
Thomas Hardy O.M
The collected poems of Edmund Gosse
The life and letters of John Donne, dean of St. Paul's
Sir Walter Raleigh
Thomas Hardy, O.M. and Sir Edmund Gosse, Litt.D
Critical kit-kats
From Shakespeare to Pope an Inquiry into the Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England
The Life And Letters Of John Donne, Dean Of St. Paul's V2
The Collected Essays Of Edmund Gosse - Portraits And Sketches
Robert Browning; personalia / by Edmund Gosse
Father and son
English Literature An Illustrated record in Eight Volumes Volume IV-Part 1 From the age of ..
The autumn garden
Collected poems
Seventeenth Century Studies - Collected Essays of Edmund Gosse
The Life And Letters Of John Donne, Dean Of St. Paul's V1
The Milton manuscripts at Trinity
Portraits and Sketches
Seventeenth Century Studies: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the ..
Firdausi in exile and other poems
Memoir of Thomas Lodge
Notes (no.13 of a series) by Mr. Edmund Gosse on the pictures and drawings of Mr. Alfred W. Hunt
Swinburne
Browning's centenary, Tuesday, May 7th, 1912
Life of William Congreve
Two visits to Denmark
French Profiles
Three French moralists and the gallantry of France
Littérature anglaise
Biographical notes on the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson
British portrait painters and engravers of the eighteenth century
Three French moralists
The Life Of Swinburne
Thomas Hardy
Cecil Lawson
Ibsen
Thomas Gray
The rose of Omar
Robert Browning: personalia
French profiles
The unknown lover
Jeremy Taylor / by Edmund Gosse
Restoration plays
Tallemant des ReĢaux
From Shakespeare to Pope
Modern English Literature (Appleton Dollar Library)
The Milton manuscripts at Trinity
A Norwegian ghost story
From Shakespeare To Pope; An Inquiry Into The Causes And Phenomena Of The Rise Of Classical Poetry In England
Synnove Solbakken
Modern English Literature: A Short History
Correspondence with Scandinavian writers
Conventry Patmore
Leaves and fruit
Transatlantic dialogue
Restoration plays
A catalogue of a portion of the library of Edmund Gosse
Critical kit-kats. --
The life of Philip Henry Gosse, F.R.S
A history of eighteenth century literature (1660-1780). -
Inter arma: being essays written in time of war
A critical essay on the life and works of George Tinworth
English literature
Wo di hai
Henrik Ibsen
Gray
History Of Eighteenth Century Literature, 1660-1780, A (BCL1-PR English Literature)
Sir Thomas Browne
Jeremy Taylor
Undine
Restoration plays
Father and son
In russet & silver
Two pioneers of romanticism
A critical essay on the life and works of George Tinworth
Gray (English Men of Letters)
Life of William Congreve
Raleigh
English literature
FirdawsÄ« dar tabŹ»Ä«d
The Oxford book of Scandinavian verse
A short history of modern English literature
English literature
Sir Edmund Gosse
Ibsen
English odes
The naturalist of the sea-shore
A visit to the friends of Ibsen
The life and letters of John Donne
A catalogue of the works of Algernon Charles Swinburne in the library of Mr. Edmund Gosse
Modern English literature
Collected essays
Gossip in a library
A history of eighteenth century literature (1660-1780)
Alexander Pope; Samuel Johnson; Gray
Critical kit-kats
Wolcott Balestier
A history of eighteenth century literature (1660-1780)
Father and son
Studies in the literature of northern Europe
Coventry Patmore
Restoration plays from Dryden to Farquhar
A History of Eighteenth Century Literature Sixteen Sixty to Seventeen Eighty
Memoir of Thomas Lodge
The collected poems of Edmund Gosse
In russet & silver
Yingguo wen xue
Father and son
An address to the Fountain club, 1923
Malherbe and the classical reaction in the seventeenth century
Sir Edmund Gosse's correspondence with Scandinavian writers
Swinburne
Restoration plays
Northern studies
The Allies' fairy book
Henry Fielding
Robert Browning
Life of William Congreve (Bcli-Pr English Literature Series)
The influence of democracy on literature
Essays From The Chap-Book
Seventeenth century studies
Aspects & Impressions (George Eliot, Henry James, Samuel Butler, Congreve, Swinburne, Rousseau, Ibsen)
Gossip in a library
Henrik Ibsen
Restoration plays
The Mermaid club
Jubilé de Paul Bourget
The Jacobean poets
Restoration plays for Dryden to Farquhar
Silhouettes
Paul Léautaud
Paul LĆ©autaud (1872-1956)

diarist, theatre critic, poet, literary critic

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Die allerneueste klassische Sau
The child of Montmartre
Le fléau
Journal particulier de Paul LeĢautaud
Henri de ReĢgnier
Lettres à ma mère
Journal litteĢraire de Paul LeĢautaud
Lichtzinnige herinneringen
Le petit ouvrage inachevé
Journal litteĢraire
Amours
Entretiens avec Robert Mallet
Paul Léautaud en verve
Lettres à ma mère
Journal Littéraire, tome VII
Le théâtre de Maurice Boissard, 1907-1923
Journal litteĢraire de Paul LeĢautaud
Lettres a Marie Dormoy
Bestiaire
Journal of a man ofletters, 1898-1907
Le petit ami
Le theĢaĢ‚tre de Maurice Boissard [pseud.]
Le petit ami
Correspondance t1
Particulier dagboek 1917-1924
Amours
Entretiens avec Robert Mallet
Literair dagboek 1893-1921
Onvoltooid verleden tijd
Le théâtre de Maurice Boissard [pseud.]
Correspondance, 1912-1955
Journal particulier
Journal littéraire. 1928-1929, tome 6
Correspondance, 1912-1955
Een zeker tegengif
Le théâtre de Maurice Boissard [pseud.] 1907-1923
Correspondance
Journal particulier
Particulier dagboek 1933
Journal Litteraire
Paul LeĢautand en verve
Journal litteĢraire
Moments of love
Henri de Régnier, biographie
MeĢlange
Literarisches tagebuch 1893-1956
Journal of a man of letters, 1898-1907
Picasso et ses amis
Journal littéraire
Journal particulier
Journal littéraire. Tome 2. Juin 1928 - février 1940
Correspondance 1912-1955 [par] Paul Léautaud, André Billy
Journal littéraire
Mes souvenirs de Pierre Louys ; suivis d'extraits censureĢs du Journal litteĢraire
Journal littéraire. Tome 3. Février 1940 - février 1956
Henri de Régnier, biographie
Choix de pages de Paul Léautaud
Passe-temps
Passe-temps ; Suivi de Passe-temps II
Lettres aĢ€ Marie Dormoy
Lettres à Marie Dormoy
Journal litteraire
Paul LeĢautaud en verve
Poètes d'aujourd'hui, Morceaux Choisis Accompagnés de Notices Biographique et d'un Essai de Bibliographie; Volume 2
Lettres à Marie Dormoy
Entretiens avec Robert Mallet
Lettre à Alfred Vallette
Choix de pages de Paul LeĢautaud
Correspondance geĢneĢrale de Paul LeĢautaud
Le fléau
Propos d'un jour
En sortant de l'eĢcole--
Le petit ouvrage inacheveĢ
Lettres à Marie Dormoy
Marly-le-Roy et environs
Passe-temps
Propos d'un jour
Particulier dagboek 1925-1950
Correspondance, 1912-1955
Paul LeĢautaud
Journal littéraire. 1925-1927, tome 5
Le petit ami
Passe-temps
Lettres aĢ€ ma meĢ€re
Une victoire sur les Allemands, juillet 1940
PoeĢsies
Journal littéraire
Amours
Lettres à ma mère
Oeuvres de Paul Léautaud
Le theĢaĢ‚tre de Maurice Boissard [pseud.] 1907-1923
Literair dagboek 1893-1921
In memoriam
Correspondance 1912-1955
Journal of a man of letters 1898-1907
Journal of a man of letters, 1898-1907
Passe-temps
María Xosé Queizán
Marƭa XosƩ QueizƔn (born 1939)

women's rights activist, literary critic

  • University of Santiago de Compostela

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