Translated Euan Cameron (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First American Edition. First US Edition, First Printing. Like New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+, Price Clipped. Canadian First. First North American Edition stated on verso of title page; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with black and white photographs. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. DEFINITIVE: MASTERPIECE: WITTY: ELEGANT: FINE Stated First American Edition hardcover (Orig. 2000) First Printing, NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners: NEW cover w/ burgundy linen wrapping uncreased spine & extending 1.36" onto front & back panels covered in ocher-gold paper w/ titles gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, NEW perfect binding w/ tight signatures & burgundy cloth banding at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on unblemished archival paper BUT w/ slightest subtle waviness to text-block * 6.36" x 9.50" x 2.36", 1.58 kg, xxii+986 pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: This exquisite portrait of the prominent 20th-century French writer is based on a wealth of primary material only recently made available & considers the intellectual & social universe that fed Proust's art: How to write the biography of a writer whose life's work was his life story? In the case of Marcel Proust, the task is complicated by the subject's own hostility to the genre; in his essay "Contre Sainte-Beuve," Proust argued that writers should be judged by their books & not by the facts of their life. Indeed, when it comes to Proust, one might well confuse the two. For the first half of his life, he traded witticisms in the salons of the belle epoque; for the second he sat at home & wrote about it, going so far as to line the walls of his living room w/ cork in order to keep the outside world where it belonged. Eventually, all that exquisite isolation produced what is arguably the defining work of the 20th century, the loosely autobiographical, imposingly multi-volumed 'Remembrance of Things Past'. As a biographer, one can conflate the novel w/ the life, as Proust's first biographer, George Painter, did; or one can go the road of several recent studies, including that of William C. Carter, & emphasize instead Proust's psychology, including his "repressed" homosexuality & his complicated relationship w/ his Jewish ancestry. Alternately, one can address Proust as a creature of his time & his place, the product of fin-de-siècle France w/ all its prejudices & conventions & embroidered antimacassars. In 'Marcel Proust: A Life', French critic Jean-Yves Tadie surveys these approaches from the lofty perspective of 40 years of Proust scholarship, & he chooses all--or perhaps none. For Tadie is concerned not with Proust the man but w/ Proust the novelist. "The true biography of a writer or an artist is that of his work," he proclaims, going on to present the development of Proust's life & his novel side by side, considering real-life people & events alongside the fictional representations they inspired. Thankfully, though impressively learned, Tadie is not what we would call an "academic" biographer: his prose is far too elegant and even witty for that, and he actually seems to be enjoying himself. In cataloging the items sold by Proust's uncle's firm, for example, Tadie exclaims with contagious glee, "Is it not like reading a novel by Balzac, or the wedding announcement chapter in Albertine disparue?" Weighing in at a very Proustian 986 pages--it would make almost as good a murder weapon as 'Remembrance of Things Past'--Tadie's work is a biography of mind-boggling thoroughness, & yet every detail strikes the reader as necessary. Suitably, this definitive work ends with a touching account of Proust's death, as the great writer dictates his masterwork until he is no longer capable of speech. Who could ask more of a biographer than Tadie's gentle & affectionate epitaph? "And we too address our respects to a man who suffered so much in order that his work should shine like the sun, now that it causes him no more harm." -Mary Park * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee of $16.00) & internationally via USPS FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression with full number line. Some very minor edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£20.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 352pp. For 27 years Fr Leopoldo Duran was probably the closest friend of the novelist Graham Greene. Greene and Duran holidayed together in Spain and Portugal every year, and visited each other's homes regularly Duran administered the Sacrament of Extreme Unction for the first time at the time of Greene's death, when he was the only person present. Greene's last novel, "Monsignor Quixote", is built around the pair's adventures, and dedicated to Duran. Duran describes Quixote as a mixture of his own priestliness and Greene's quixotic side, with the Mayor embodying Greene's intellectual leanings towards communism and atheism. Fr Duran documented his relationship with Greene exhaustively, and has a huge archive of photographs.

Softcovers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. 2001. First edition thus. 124pp., frontispiece portrait, and 1 page advertising another publication. Julian Green (1900-1998) was an American writer who lived most of his life in France and wrote mostly in French and only occasionally in English. Over a long career, he authored novels, essays, plays, a biography of Francis of Assisi, and a four-volume autobiography. He also maintained a daily journal that he edited and published in nineteen volumes. The Other Sleep is a short novel that was first published in French in 1931. The present edition contains an afterword by the author, and has been translated by Euan Cameron. The book is bound in the original card wraps with black titling on the spine and black titling with a colour illustration on the front. The book is in very good condition with shelf wear to the covers and rubbing to the corners and spine ends. The contents are secure and clean with no inscription.

Hardback. First edition. Hardback. 209pp. A memoir by Graham Greene's last partner Yvonne Cloetta. Small selection of black and white plates. Text is in English. A little rubbed to edges of dust wrapper and rolled to top edge of dust wrapper. Very clean and sound. Very good copy in good+ dust wrapper Very good copy in good+ dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. translated by Euan Cameron (illustrator). 1st Edition. cloth, dust jacket, xx, 986 pages,in protective mylar, Includes bibliographical references (page 930,934) and index. remainder mark bottom edge, name covered with black marker on front blank, Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Very Good. Condition: Very Good. Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 Friends and associates. Novelists, English 20th century. Dur+ín, Leopoldo Friends and associates.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 986 pages. 6.75x9.75x2.25 inches. In Stock.

Viking. 2000. First edition, U.S. Thick hardback with DW. Board extremities slightly worn and bumped otherwise a lovely clean copy in a lightly worn wrapper.