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Edith Wharton in France (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781632260932)
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xFrom French scholar and author Claudine Lesage, comes Edith Wharton in France, an examination of Wharton's years (1907-1937) in France. Lesage, with her innate knowledge of French culture, uses previously unknown or untranslated sources to provide a unique look into French society and Wharton's place within it.
Edith Wharton in France chronicles Edith Wharton's dogged efforts to penetrate the Byzantine levels of French high society, her love for the French and Italian countryside, and her consuming passion for the Mediterranean garden. While Lesage is initially skeptical of Wharton's ability to "become French," this work ultimately portrays a woman of indomitable spirit who ultimately succeeds in fashioning a French home of her own making in her beloved adopted country.
Lesage's work illuminates the intertwined characters and important relationships of Wharton's life in France, many of them overlooked or minimized in earlier biographies. Prominently featured in the account are the French novelist Paul Bourget and his wife Minnie, whose meticulous diary entries over a 35-year period provide a fresh look at Wharton's active social life both in Paris and on the French Riviera.
A still more intimate look into Wharton's French circle is provided by her extensive correspondence with the Frenchman L on B lugou, a widely travelled mining engineer, writer and well-known figure in Parisian high society. Spanning more than 25 years, the letters portray a mutual intellectual kinship and devoted friendship. Other newly discovered highlights include letters presented as evidence in Wharton's French divorce proceedings, a mysterious autobiographical essay written by Wharton's lover, American journalist Morton Fullerton, and numerous photographs never before published.
The author of multiple works of translation, as well original French texts on Wharton and Conrad, Lesage had access to unexamined and untranslated French sources. She presents Wharton's life from the perspective of a native French woman, capturing a unique view of Wharton trying to navigate through the ancient layers of French society and master its often maddeningly obscure rules, all the while commenting on the horrors of World War I and the cataclysmic changes in the arts and culture of Paris.
Author: Claudine Lesage
ISBN-10: 163226093X
ISBN-13: 9781632260932
Publisher: Prospecta Press
Language: English
Published: 10/23/2018
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.80w x 1.40d
By Claudine Lesage
xThe French author Claudine Lesage, n馥 Holuigue, was born in 1943. She obtained a Ph.D. in English Literature at Amiens in 1987, specializing in the works of Joseph Conrad. Lesage published several books about Conrad: La maison de Th駻鑚e (1992), Joseph Conrad et le Continent (2003), and translations of his works: Le Forban (2005), Du go皦 des voyages (2007), and Coeur des T駭鐫res (2009). In 1989, while researching Conrad at the library of the Ce d'Azur town of Hy鑽es, Lesage discovered an unsigned manuscript that appeared to be an early work of Edith Wharton. After studying the manuscript, Lesage determined it was an unpublished account of Wharton's 1888 Mediterranean cruise aboard the private yacht, The Vanadis.
After publishing the journal as The Cruise of the Vanadis, Lesage probed further into Wharton's work and her life, concentrating on the American writer's French years. Lesage translated several Wharton short stories; edited Lettres a l'ami Francais (2001); and authored Edith Wharton en France (2011).
Dr. Lesage died in 2013 before she could publish her final manuscript, a work on Wharton's life in France intended for an American audience.
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