Vivant Denon and other texts

A stunning new Vivant Denon in both versions (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), with an introduction quite satisfactory for the presentation context. The notes have the good taste to show the correction work of Balzac for publication, but the text is fast and easy to read (the advantage is that the second version and Bastide text optionally allow other " modes "of reading).

Character itself sympathetic enough to the modern reader in that it shows a highly aestheticized and ritualized debauchery, in all aspects of the text, which remains by this very powerful in evoking without falling into the "bathos" and destroy the mind by its high sensitivity, but also a writer of his time maintaining its aperture size "falsely ambiguous" about morality, neither falling in the prudery nor cynical, Vivant Denon here gives to those who really want it and some other pleasant things to think about, especially for the eighteenth and nineteenth look that then carries on, even for the twentieth (see Milan Kundera "Slowness"). The informative value of this book which exposes X commonplaces quite personal, is certainly not to be overlooked.