1st Edition
The Ideal Reader Proust, Freud, and the Reconstruction of European Culture
Edited By Jacques Riviere
Copyright 1960
282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
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Jacques Riviere knew how to accept art emotionally. No French critic was ever less a traditional pedagogue. Rivibre was an intelligent French writer, who knew that the summit of the intellect is to admit aff ective knowledge, instinct, and intuition. The "heart," or taste, is always superior to raw intelligence. Reviere's supple metaphors are not easily rendered into English. Th e density of his... Read more
1: Perception of New Trends; Foreword; Concerning Sincerity; The Adventure Novel; ‘Le Sacre du Printemps”; 2: Proust and Freud; Foreword; The Goncourt Prize; Marcel Proust and the Classical Tradition; Marcel Proust and the Positivist Mind; The Three Main Theses of Psychoanalysis; A New Orientation of Psychology; 3: In Defense of Literature; Foreword; Concerning a Book on Aesthetics; In Defense of Intelligence; “Belphégor”; Gratitude to Dada; On Dostoevsky and the Creation of Character; “Le Bal du Comte d’Or gel”; An Open Letter to Henri Massis on Good and Bad Sentiments; 4: Summary; French Letters and the War
Biography
Jacques Riviere
