Gaston De Latour is the first volume in the tenvolume Collected Works of Walter Pater. Among Victorian writers, Pater (18391894) challenged academic and religious orthodoxies, defended the love of art for its own sake, developed a new genre of prose fiction (the imaginary portrait), set new standards for intermedial and crossdisciplinary criticism, and made style the watchword for creativity and life. Everywhere creating themes and resonances that span his narrative, the authors voice in Gaston de Latour is intensely personal and the readers experience is intimate, almost invasive. Although unfinished and first posthumously published in 1896, the novel was hailed by Richard Le Gallienne as sensitively beautiful as in his most perfect work, as rich in delicate colour and music, and as remarkable for exquisite detail. This edition includes six additional suppressed chapters by Pater of varying degrees of completeness as a continuation of his interrupted originallyserialized text. This revised text (now a third longer than the posthumously published edition) appears here accompanied by a scholarly Introduction, Explanatory Annotation, and Apparatus Criticus. As it now stands, Paters nevertobecompleted Gaston de Latour seems very much to belong to artistic modernism, like a conceptual work of artan idea not formally actualized but open to ranges of realization in the process of creation.

Binding: Hardcover;438 pages; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Classification: DSBF; Weight: 754 g; Dimensions: 146 x 226 x 27

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