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Dinner at Magny's

in8. Broché.

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1971

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Robert Baldick

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Robert Baldick was an English scholar of French literature, writer, joint editor of the Penguin Classics series with Betty Radice, and a well-known translator. He was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.

He wrote eight books including biographies of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Frederick Le Maitre and Henry Murger and a history of the Siege of Paris.

In addition, Baldick edited and translated The Goncourt Journals and a number of the classics of French literature including works by Gustave Flaubert, Chateaubriand, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jules Verne, and Henri Barbusse, as well as a number of novels by Georges Simenon.

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Eén van mijn favoriete boeken in de categorie historische fictie, waarin George Sand en haar cercle in Parijs centraal staan. Baldick fictionaliseert op basis van historische feiten en reconstrueert hierin de diners van George Sand met haar vrienden in een destijds beroemd etablissement in Parijs.
Baldick kwam ik onlangs weer tegen in Julian Barnes' De man in de rode mantel als vertaler van A Rebours van Huysmans. Barnes steunt sterk op Huysmans, aangezien A Rebours (Tegen de Keer, vertaald door Jan Siebelink) een sleutelroman is over één van de historische personages die figureren in het leven Samuel Pozzi, de protagonist in De man in de rode mantel.
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