Vigny: Chatterton

by Robin Buss

78 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Robin Buss was an English translator, journalist, film critic and Francophile. As well as French, he was fluent in Russian, Italian, Swedish, Spanish and Welsh. As a film critic, he championed French film noir and published three works on European cinema. He wrote critical studies of works by Vigny and Cocteau, and became a leading translator of classic French fiction, making Zola, Sartre, Dumas and others accessible to English-speakers.