A biography that includes Byron

Maurois offers a remarkable biography, very simple, which reveals the personality of Byron by understanding gracefully. Byron appears in all his humanity, which we understand the relationship with his creation. Watch out for criticism in the opposite eternal Homais pedants, myopic and wrathful, who will never accept such a being. Maurois has chosen his title and reading Byron's Don Juan is needed before or after this biography. One understands this extraordinary mixture (and perhaps synthesis) 18th lucid and sarcastic willingly century aristocratic personality violently rebellious, impatient of any limit, grand romantic style with devastating humor. Obviously Byron is not self-centered. Unlike its absolute claim to be (and what to be!) Would be an existential model, if accepting such a role had been able to touch ... You have to meet his flamboyant thought, but unhappy, and discover the taste of truth, of the action (what is lacking in comparison to Musset and Baudelaire). Thus one better grasps his works where the most beautiful romantic flights mingle with a sour humor, clear-sighted, and clearer sense. This suggests to the reader that romance is won. The youth of his time admired unreservedly, she was right. If one wants to imagine for a moment that the moral word does not make too much laughter Byron, so she is well on her side, the real ...