John Weightman
John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)
From the Review
October 24, 2002: A Soft Spot for Napoleon
Napoleon and Berlin: The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813 by Michael V. Leggiere
Napoleon by Paul Johnson
Napoleon Bonaparte: England's Prisoner by Frank Giles
Napoleon: A Biography by Frank McLynn
May 17, 2001: Molière Imaginaire
Molière: A Theatrical Life Virginia Scott
October 19, 2000: Death on the Installment Plan
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan
April 27, 2000: Reconstructing the Colonel
Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort by Roger Martin du Gard, Translated from the French by Luc Brébion, Translated from the French by Timothy Crouse
January 15, 1998: The Outsider
Albert Camus: A Life by Olivier Todd, Translated from the French by Benjamin Ivry
July 17, 1997: Cosmic Adventurer
Jules Verne: An Exploratory Biography by Herbert R. Lottman
Paris in the Twentieth Century the lost novel by Jules Verne, translated by Richard Howard
July 11, 1996: The Book of Cohen
Belle du Seigneur: A Novel by Albert Cohen, translated and with an introduction by David Coward
May 23, 1996: 'Zola: A Life' (letter)
March 21, 1996: Between Animal and Angel
Zola: A Life by Frederick Brown
November 30, 1995: Extravaganza in Progress
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki, translated by Ian Maclean
December 1, 1994: Multicultural Mandarin
A.O. Barnabooth, His Diary by Valery Larbaud, translated by Gilbert Cannan, Introduction by Alan Jenkins
Childish Things by Valery Larbaud, translated by Catherine Wald
Lettres à Adrienne Monnier et à Sylvia Beach, 1919–1933 by Valery Larbaud
September 23, 1993: The Human Comedy of the Divine Marquis
Sade: A Biography by Maurice Lever, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
February 11, 1993: Fatal Attraction
Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944–1956 by Tony Judt
November 5, 1992: How Wise Was Montaigne?
Michel de Montaigne: The Essays translated and edited by M.A. Screech
Montaigne and Melancholy: The Wisdom of the 'Essays' by M.A. Screech
January 16, 1992: Twilight in Flanders
Dear Departed by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Maria Louise Ascher
December 5, 1991: Sex and the Devil
South: A Play by Julian Green
The Distant Lands by Julian Green, translated by Barbara Beaumont
Paris by Julian Green, translated by J. A. Underwood
Adrienne Mesurat by Julian Green, translated by Henry Longan Stuart, revised by Marilyn Gaddis Rose
October 25, 1990: L'Homme Révolté
The Conspiracy by Paul Nizan, translated by Quintin Hoare, with afterword by Jean-Paul Sartre
January 18, 1990: A La Recherche…de Proust
Marcel Proust: Selected Letters Volume Two, 1904–1909 edited by Philip Kolb, translated and with an introduction by Terence Kilmartin
Marcel Proust: A Biography by George D. Painter
December 21, 1989: Written on Water
The Walnut Trees of Altenburg by André Malraux, translated by A.W. Fielding
March 16, 1989: The Soul of Translation (letter)
December 8, 1988: Confessions of a Polymorph
The Wind Spirit an autobiography by Michel Tournier, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
August 13, 1987: Summing Up Sartre
Sartre: A Life by Annie Cohen-Solal, translated by Anna Cancogni, edited by Norman MacAfee
Sartre: A Life by Ronald Hayman
Sartre's Second Critique by Ronald Aronson
A Preface to Sartre by Dominick LaCapra
The Politics of Prose: Essay on Sartre by Denis Hollier, translated by Jeffrey Mehlman, foreword by Jean-François Lyotard
Simone de Beauvoir: Witness to a Century edited by Hélène Vivienne Wenzel
Simone de Beauvoir: A Life…A Love Story by Claude Francis, by Fernande Gontier, translated by Lisa Nesselson
November 8, 1984: Polymorphic Peter Pan
The Fetishist by Michel Tournier, translated by Barbara Wright
April 2, 1981: The French Complaint
The Horror of Life by Roger L. Williams
May 15, 1980: A Mysterious Man? (letter)
May 15, 1980: A Mysterious Man? (letter)
February 21, 1980: Ego, Prince of Id
St. John Perse: Letters translated and edited by Arthur J. Knodel
October 13, 1977: Risorgimento and Romantic Agony
Cristina, Portraits of a Princess by Beth Archer Brombert
April 19, 1973: What's Going On Upstairs?
Do You Hear Them? by Nathalie Sarraute, translated by Maria Jolas
June 15, 1972: Stranger in Paradise
A Happy Death by Albert Camus, translated by Richard Howard, Afterword and Notes by Jean Sarocchi
June 1, 1972: Refrigerated Dreams
Project for a Revolution in New York by Alain Robbe-Grillet, translated by Richard Howard
April 6, 1972: Battle of the Century—Sartre vs. Flaubert
L'idiot de la famille Gustave Flaubert de 1821 à 1857 Books) by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Greatness of Flaubert by Maurice Nadeau, translated by Barbara Bray
October 8, 1970: Inside Voltaire's Skin (letter)
October 8, 1970: Moth Myth
Papillon by Henri Charrière, translated by June P. Wilson, translated by Walter Benn Michaels
Les Quatre Vérités de Papillon by Georges Ménager
Papillon Épinglé by Gérard de Villiers
June 18, 1970: Cultivating Voltaire
Voltaire by Theodore Besterman
The Intellectual Development of Voltaire by Ira O. Wade
July 10, 1969: Blue Blood and Divine Right
Historical Memoirs, 1691-1709 by Duc de Saint-Simon, edited and translated by Lucy Norton
June 5, 1969: Paranoid Poetics
Castle to Castle by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, translated by Ralph Mannheim
January 2, 1969: On Not Translating Racine
Racine or The Triumph of Relevance by Odette de Mourgues
The Complete Plays of Jean Racine translated by Samuel Solomon, with an Introduction by Katherine Wheatley
May 23, 1968: A Wearying Task (letter)
February 29, 1968: Poet of Unreason
Artaud Anthology edited by Jack Hirschman
August 24, 1967: Black Chivalry
Miracle of the Rose by Jean Genet, translated by Bernard Frechtman
March 9, 1967: Every Man His Myth (letter)
January 12, 1967: Cultivating the Enlightenment
The Enlightenment: An Interpretation, The Rise of Modern Paganism by Peter Gay
December 1, 1966: The Indeterminate I
Fever by J.M.G. Le Clézio, translated by Daphne Woodward
The Opoponax by Monique Wittig, translated by Helen Weaver
October 6, 1966: Malraux: Behind the Mask
Malraux: A Collection of Critical Essays edited by R.W.B. Lewis
André Malraux: The Indochina Adventure by Walter G. Langlois
The Rhetorical Hero: An Essay on the Aesthetics of André Malraux by William Righter
July 7, 1966: Colette's Class (letter)
June 9, 1966: Earth Mother of the Demi-Monde
The Tender Shoot and Other Stories by Colette, translated by Antonia White
The Blue Lantern by Colette, translated by Roger Senhouse
Earthly Paradise: Colette's Autobiography drawn from the writings of her lifetime by Robert Phelps
Mitsou and Music Hall Sidelights by Colette, translated by Raymond Postgate, translated by Anne-Marie Callimachi
The Other One by Colette, translated by Roger Senhouse, translated by Elizabeth Tait
The Delights of Growing Old by Maurice Goudeket
January 6, 1966: Just Friends
Conversations with Andre Gide by Claude Mauriac, translated by Michael Lebeck
October 28, 1965: Beyond the Fringe
The History of Surrealism by Maurice Nadeau, translated by Richard Howard, with an Introduction by Roger Shattuck
Selected Works by Alfred Jarry, edited by Roger Shattuck, by Simon Watson Taylor
August 26, 1965: King Phallus
Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Other Writings by Marquis de Sade, compiled and translated by Richard Seaver, by Austyn Wainhouse, with Introductions by Jean Paulhan, by Maurice Blanchot
November 19, 1964: The Bound Man
The Journal of Jules Renard edited and translated by Louise Bogan, by Elizabeth Roget
July 30, 1964: Eighteenth-Century Paris
Les Nuits de Paris by Restif de la Bretonne, with an Introduction by Jacques Barzun, translated by Linda Asher, by Eileen Fertig
April 30, 1964: Day-Dreams
The Psychoanalysis of Fire by Gaston Bachelard, translated by Alan C.M. Ross
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard, translated by Maria Jolas
October 31, 1963: The King and I
The Age of Magnificence: Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV by the Duc de Saint-Simon, selected, edited, and translated by Sanche de Gramont
Books by John Weightman
Masterworks of the French Cinema (1974)
The Concept of the Avant-Garde: Explorations in Modernism (1973)