Victor Brombert: 3 books
by Victor Brombert, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2002
"A beautifully cadenced work of art—it will remind some readers of Nabokov's classic Speak, Memory."—Joyce Carol Oates
Paris in the 1930s—melancholy, erotic, intensely politicized—provides the poetic beginning for this remarkable autobiography by one of America's most renowned...
Musings on Mortality
From Tolstoy to Primo Levi
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
“All art and the love of art,” Victor Brombert writes at the beginning of the deeply personal Musings on Mortality, “allow us to negate our nothingness.” As a young man returning from World War II, Brombert came to understand this truth as he immersed himself in literature. Death can be found...
Stendhal
Fiction and the Themes of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Victor Brombert is a lion in the study of French literature, and in this classic of literary criticism, he turns his clear and perspicacious gaze on the works of one of its greatest authors—Stendhal. Best remembered for his novels The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal is...