Books by Wallace Fowlie

A comparison of Jim Morrison and the rebel poet Rimbaud.

"Wallace Fowlie gives the history of the preparation of the heart and mind which make the scholar. . . . The closest parallel I can think of to this book in America would be to say that "Journal of Rehearsals" combines the aims of "The Education of Henry Adams" with those of "Mont St. Michel and Chartres.""--Jay Martin, Professor of Government and Gould Professor of Humanities, Claremont-McKenna College

"Wallace Fowlie here gives us his third book of memoirs--the best yet. "Sites" in thematically focused on places that have marked Fowlie's life and affected his way of looking at the world. This brilliantly written book exhibits great clarity and elegant simplicity, virtues that only an experienced--and good--writer can achieve. Although "Sites" has a strong unfolding narrative pattern that encourages you to read it from beginning to end, it can be browsed in to good purpose, for you can read any chapter out of sequence and still relish it. "Sites" significantly contributes to the theory and practice of autobiography."--George Core

The selections are good and the translations are excellent.―Germaine Brée, New York UniversityDrawn from two centuries of French literature, these superb selections by ten great writers span a wide variety of styles, philosophies, and literary creeds. The stories reflect not only the beliefs of various literary schools, but the preoccupations of French civilization, at the various times of their composition, with the metaphysical and psychological problems of man. Contents include Micromégas (Voltaire), La Messe de l'Athée (Honoré de Balzac), La Légende de Saint Julien l'Hospitalier (Gustave Flaubert), Le Spleen de Paris (Charles Baudelaire), Menuet (Guy de Maupassant), Mort de Judas (Paul Claudel), Le Retour de l'Enfant Prodigue (André Gide), Grand-Lebrun (François Mauriac), Le Passe-Muraille (Marcel Aymé), and L'Hôte (Albert Camus). Students of French, or those who wish to refresh their knowledge of the language, will welcome this treasury of masterly fiction. The selections are arranged chronologically, allowing the reader to witness the development of French literary art--from Voltaire to Camus. Excellent English translations appear on pages facing the Original French. Also included are a French-English vocabulary list, textural notes, and exercises. Unabridged, slightly revised Dover (1990) edition of the work published by Bantam Books, Inc., 1960.