Souvenirs d'égotisme
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9782070374304 (2070374300)
ASIN: 2070374300
Publish date: February 1st 1983
Publisher: Editions Gallimard
Pages no: 254
Edition language: French
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...
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