{"product_id":"my-fantoms-9781590172711","title":"My Fantoms","description":"Romantic provocateur, flamboyant bohemian, precocious novelist, perfect poet--not to mention an inexhaustible journalist, critic, and man-about-town--Th ophile Gautier is one of the major figures, and great characters, of French literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMy Fantoms\u003c\/i\u003e Richard Holmes, the celebrated biographer of Shelley and Coleridge, has found a brilliantly effective new way to bring this great bu too-little-known writer into English. \u003ci\u003eMy Fantoms\u003c\/i\u003e assembles seven stories spanning the whole of Gautier's career into a unified work that captures the essence of his adventurous life and subtle art. From the erotic awakening of \"The Adolescent\" through \"The Poet,\" a piercing recollection of the mad genius G rard de Nerval, the great friend of Gautier's youth, \u003ci\u003eMy Fantoms\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the senses and illuminates the strange disguises of the spirit, while taking readers on a tour of modernity at its most mysterious. \"What ever would the Devil find to do in Paris?\" Gautier wonders. \"He would meet people just as diabolical as he, and find himself taken for some na ve provincial...\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTapestries, statues, and corpses come to life; young men dream their way into ruin; and Gautier keeps his faith in the power of imagination: \"No one is truly dead, until they are no longer loved.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-1176901\"\u003eTheophile Gautier\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590172711\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 159017271X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC029000\"\u003eShort Stories (single author)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC027040\"\u003eGothic\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThéophile Gautier \u003c\/b\u003e(1811--1872) was a poet, novelist, art critic, and one of the most prominent French Romantic writers of the nineteenth century. He originally studied as a painter but his friendship with Nerval and Hugo turned him toward a career in literature. By his twenties he had become a leading figure in the Jeune-France group, and the publication of \u003ci\u003eMademoiselle de Maupin \u003c\/i\u003ein 1836 placed him at the heart of the Parisian literary world. Apart from his weekly journalist contributions to \u003ci\u003eLa Presse \u003c\/i\u003efor twenty years, he worked on comedies, pantomimes, ballet scenarios, and produced novels, stories, and travel books. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Holmes \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eShelley: The Pursuit\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1974; \u003ci\u003eDr Johnson and Mr. Savage\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 1993 James Tait Black Prize; and \u003ci\u003eColeridge: Early Visions\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1992. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain. He is also a professor of biographical studies at the University of East Anglia.","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44447435096301,"sku":"9781590172711","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_77d3f67d-076f-4d2e-b1dc-01673c9c58a1.jpg?v=1700293563","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/my-fantoms-9781590172711","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}