Never mind the neighbours
Margaret Anne Doody, 4 April 1996
Delphine
by Germaine de Staël, translated by Avriel Goldberger.
Northern Illinois, 468 pp., $50, September 1995,0 87580 200 1 Show More
by Germaine de Staël, translated by Avriel Goldberger.
Northern Illinois, 468 pp., $50, September 1995,
“... European novels of its time or shortly before – Julie, Clarissa, Werther – is spelled out by Avriel Goldberger in her crisp Introduction. De Staël’s Essai sur les fictions (1795) makes it clear that she had studied fiction with great intensity and thoroughness; her novel-writing exhibits the skill of a well-versed critic who knows all her ... ”
