Geoffrey Wall

Geoffrey Wall teaches at the University of York. His translation of Flaubert’s Selected Letters was published in 1997.

Letter

Atlas’s ‘Bellow’, Holmes’s ‘Coleridge’

2 November 2000

The LRB announces ‘the corruption of literary biography’ (LRB, 2 November). Can it be that simple? From the jottings of John Aubrey to Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, from the belligerent dynamism of Hazlitt’s Spirit of the Age to the sceptical ‘modernising’ of Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf, all the way to the anguished intimacies of contemporary pathography, literary biography has kept...

Pieces about Geoffrey Wall in the LRB

Amused, Bored or Exasperated: Gustave Flaubert

Christopher Prendergast, 13 December 2001

And so another literary ‘life’, framed, as is the custom, by a beginning (childhood) and an ending (death), although Geoffrey Wall, on retiring from his story, decorates the frame...

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May he roar with pain!

John Sturrock, 27 May 1993

At the time, George Sand was the celebrity, a retired amorist and noted cross-dresser now publishing without strain two or three novels a year of the improving, marketable kind. Flaubert, too,...

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