Praeterita And Dilecta
Praeterita And Dilecta
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Résumé
Ruskin was not merely the most important anglophone art critic and social commentator of the late nineteenth century: for his admirers - who included Proust - he was a Tolstoyan figure with the magic of an artist and the moral authority of a sage.
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Praeterita And Dilecta by John Ruskin
To call Praeterita an autobiography is to tell only part of the truth. A book like no other, by oneof the greatest masters of English prose., it is less a narrative than the prismatic sotry of an extraordinary mind and a passionate heart told in terms of the author's aesthetic education. Ruskin was not merely the most important anglophone art critic and social commentator of the late nineteenth century: for his admirers - who included Proust - he was a Tolstoyan figure with the magic of an artist and the moral authority of a sage. Yet above all he was loved as a personality by friends and readers alilke, and it is the individual human qualitites which shine through the mercurial pages of Praeterita
No autobiographer surpasses Ruskin in freshness and fulness of memory, nor in the power of giving interest to the apparently commonplaceThe story fascinates * Sir Leslie Stephen *
Timothy Hilton, a former art critic for the Guardian and the Independent on Sunday, is the author of a two-volume biography of John Ruskin (Yale, 1985, 2000). Other works include The Pre-Raphaelites and Picasso.
| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9781857152791 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857152794 |
| Titre | Praeterita And Dilecta |
| Auteur | John Ruskin |
| Série | Everyman's Library Classics |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Hardback |
| Éditeur | Everyman |
| Année de publication | 2005-02-03 |
| Nombre de pages | 704 |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
| Note | Non disponible |