Memoirs of Egotism
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781435142220 (1435142225)
Publish date: April 16th 2012
Publisher: Fall River Press
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
This is a book by a writer, primarily for other writers. Stendhal is carrying out an interesting experiment, and I'm surprised that it hasn't had more of an impact. Unless you have an unusually positive view of human nature, you'll agree that most autobiographies are dreadful collections of self-ser...
On the matter of sex. What I got out of this book was exactly one thing. That in some parts of Europe at the time, women and men were equal in this respect: everybody had lovers. It wasn’t something men did to women. This makes scenes that might otherwise be repugnant resonate with eroticism. Perhap...