James Huneker profiles writers who made the self their subject and religion: Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Anatole France, Huysmans, Maurice Barrès, Nietzsche, Blake, Ibsen, Max Stirner and the Catholic visionary Ernest Hello. He mixes biography, gossip and argument, from Berlioz’s unkind sketch of Stendhal to Huysmans’s long road from pessimism to faith.
Lively criticism from America’s great cosmopolitan critic, for readers drawn to European modernism and its awkward geniuses. Download the free EPUB.