Paperback, 135 pages
English, French language
Published April 8, 1986 by Gallimard/Schoenhof's.
Classiques d'aujourd'hui brings the greatest works of modern French fiction to American readers in a practical, new format. The complete texts in the original French are made more accessible thanks to analytic introductions, explicatory notes, short critical bibliographies, all presented in English by leading specialists. With Classiques d'aujourd'hui, the masterpieces of the French novel of the 19th and 20th Centuries become readily available and more fully understandable to American readers of French literature. (back cover)
Feels like it'd be more interesting in some other medium.
I hardly survived the heresy and chaos of this work.
Some things are questionable in translation and for I don't speak French - I am supposed to blame the translators and editors for making a lousy job...unless the essay itself is utter nonsense.
I did find a couple of good ideas though, it resonates a lot practically with everyone as it manages to describe you and no one at the same time.
Oh, and I came for the quote, the one about that scatterbrained woman and her patron cursed by boredom. I am still finding this short piece remarkable.
