Saint Augustin

by Aloysius Bertrand, Vincent O'Sullivan (Translator)

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Genres: Nonfiction

260 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 17, 2012

About the author

Louis Jacques Napoléon Bertrand, better known by his pen name Aloysius Bertrand (20 April 1807 — 29 April 1841), was a French Romantic poet, playwright and journalist. He is famous for having introduced prose poetry in French literature, and is considered a forerunner of the Symbolist movement. His masterpiece is the collection of prose poems Gaspard de la Nuit published posthumously in 1842 (but probably mostly written already in 1827); though relatively ignored at the time, the book later had a huge influence on Charles Baudelaire's Spleen de Paris, the Symbolists and on the Surrealist movement. Three of its poems were adapted to an eponymous piano suite by Maurice Ravel in 1908.

Reviews

[Tech Nossomy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A serious biography of the bishop of Hippo, Augustine, mostly factual and with a few exaggerations.

Available on Project Gutenberg.

[Sandeep Ellawala · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is one of those books you would read half way through and get so bored to even drop it. Well... for me this book was not leading anywhere interesting. This may very much likely be due to the fact that I am not from a Christian background. So I could not basically relate to this Saint Augustin in any significant manner. So... I am just going to drop this and be done with it. I do not know how I made it till 20% of this book.