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Selected Essays
From the inside flap of the dust jacket:
"Selected Essays shows the author at his frankest and most disarming. He writes at first hand of sport, sex, war, and literary creation, often in terms of each other with a bullfighter's conscious provocativeness and economy of technique. He is, after all, when the adventurer, the libertine, and the patrician athlete are disposed of, essentially a moralist in the tradition of Montaigne and La Rochefoucauld. The maxims at the end of this book…are the ideal springboard for a considered leap into both the novels and the plays."
-The Times (London)
"Selected Essays shows the author at his frankest and most disarming. He writes at first hand of sport, sex, war, and literary creation, often in terms of each other with a bullfighter's conscious provocativeness and economy of technique. He is, after all, when the adventurer, the libertine, and the patrician athlete are disposed of, essentially a moralist in the tradition of Montaigne and La Rochefoucauld. The maxims at the end of this book…are the ideal springboard for a considered leap into both the novels and the plays."
-The Times (London)
304 pages, Hardcover
Published October 1, 1960
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About the author
Henry de Montherlant
139 books106 followersHenry de Montherlant (1895-1972) fut romancier, dramaturge, essayiste et poète. Il était membre de l’Académie française et peut être considéré comme un des plus grands écrivains du XXe siècle, à l’égal d’un Proust ou d’un Céline.
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May 15, 2017
"I shall build, and then I shall destroy that which I have built. There we have an epigraph for this book - an epigraph for my life".
de Montherlant was an interesting guy, full of contradictions and reveling in them. This collection of essays covers a wide variety of topics, from literary criticism to impending world war, injected with de Montherlant's sometimes-ascetic sometimes-libertine morality.
de Montherlant was an interesting guy, full of contradictions and reveling in them. This collection of essays covers a wide variety of topics, from literary criticism to impending world war, injected with de Montherlant's sometimes-ascetic sometimes-libertine morality.
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