Roger Shattuck
Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)
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October 6, 2005: Malraux's Culture (letter)
September 22, 2005: 'The Shame of the Schools' (letter)
May 26, 2005: In the Thick of Things
Malraux: A Life by Olivier Todd, translated from the French by Joseph West
André Malraux: A Biography by Curtis Cate
Communism and the French Intellectuals, 1914–1960 by David Caute
Signed, Malraux by Jean-François Lyotard,translated from the French by Robert Harvey
Writers on the Left: Episodes in American Literary Communism by Daniel Aaron
L'État culturel: Une religion moderne (The Culture State: Essay on a Modern Religion) by Marc Fumaroli
The God That Failed edited by R.H.S. Crossman
Malraux and Corniglion-Molinier in Search of Sheba: An Arabian Adventure by Walter G. Langlois
Mona Lisa's Escort: André Malraux and the Reinvention of French Culture by Herman Lebovics
Paris Journal, 1944–1965 by Janet Flanner (Genêt), edited by William Shawn
April 7, 2005: The Shame of the Schools
April 29, 2004: Keats & Helen Keller (letter)
February 26, 2004: A World of Words
November 6, 2003: Tumult in the Clouds
Visions of a Flying Machine: The Wright Brothers and the Process of Invention by Peter L. Jakab
Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity through the First World War by Richard P. Hallion
Progress in Flying Machines by Octave Chanute
To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight by James Tobin
Les Avions de la Grande Galerie Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace
First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane by T.A. Heppenheimer
How We Invented the Airplane: An Illustrated History by Orville Wright, edited by Fred C. Kelly
Unlocking the Sky: Glenn Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane by Seth Shulman
No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World's Most Dangerous Sport by Joshua Cooper Ramo
North Star over My Shoulder: A Flying Life by Bob Buck
Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight by William Langewiesche
Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight by Paul Hoffman
The Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright edited by Peter L. Jakab and Rick Young
The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age by Tom D. Crouch and Peter L. Jakab
March 13, 2003: The Mormon Murder Case (letter)
June 13, 2002: 'Think Like a Demigod'
Flaubert: A Life by Geoffrey Wall
November 29, 2001: 'Saving Us from Darwin': An Exchange
February 22, 2001: Farce & Philosophy
Stories & Remarks by Raymond Queneau, with a preface by Michel Leiris, translated and with an introduction by Marc Lowenthal
The Bark Tree[Le Chiendent] by Raymond Queneau, translated from the French by Barbara Wright
Odile by Raymond Queneau,translated from the French by Carol Sanders
Raymond Queneau (1985) by Allen Thiher
We Always Treat Women Too Well [On est toujours trop bon avec les femmes] by Raymond Queneau. translated from the French by Barbara Wright
Œuvres complètes, Volume One by Raymond Queneau, edited by Claude Debon
Zazie[Zazie dans le métro] by Raymond Queneau, translated from the French by Barbara Wright
Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau,translated from the French by Barbara Wright
June 29, 2000: Decline and Fall?
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun
May 6, 1999: 'The Threat to Proust': An Exchange
March 18, 1999: The Threat to Proust
A la recherche du temps perdu, 1987-1989: Vol. 1 by Marcel Proust, edited by Jean-Yves Tadié
A la recherche du temps perdu, 1987-1989: Vol. 2 by Marcel Proust, edited by Jean-Yves Tadié
A la recherche du temps perdu, 1987-1989: Vol. 3 by Marcel Proust, edited by Jean-Yves Tadié
A la recherche du temps perdu, 1987-1989: Vol. 4 by Marcel Proust, edited by Jean-Yves Tadié
Marcel Proust by Edmund White
March 5, 1998: Louisiana Story
Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable by Christopher Benfey
Masters and Servants by Pierre Michon, translated by Wyatt Alexander Mason
March 27, 1997: Confidence Man
Duchamp: A Biography by Calvin Tomkins
The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self in Modern Culture by Jerrold Seigel
The Popular Culture of Modern Art: Picasso, Duchamp, and Avant-Gardism by Jeffrey Weiss
The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp edited by Thierry de Duve
New York Dada 1915-23 by Francis M. Naumann
Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York edited by Francis M. Naumann, with Beth Venn. Catalog of the Whitney Museum exhibition, which closed on February 23.
Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Esthetics by Heather Busch, by Burton Silver
October 3, 1996: Dickinson's Charm (letter)
June 20, 1996: Emily Dickinson's Banquet of Abstemiousness
June 6, 1996: The Pleasures of Abstinence
May 23, 1996: 'Zola: A Life' (letter)
April 4, 1996: Tea with Alice (letter)
January 11, 1996: Brinksmanship
Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography by Norman Mailer
August 13, 1992: In the Magic Circle
The Lost Upland: Stories of Southwest France by W.S. Merwin
December 20, 1990: Born Again African
Black, French, and African: A Life of Léopold Sédar Senghor by Janet G. Vaillant
Œuvre poétique by Léopold Sédar Senghor
Ce que je crois by Léopold Sédar Senghor
March 15, 1990: Mascot of Modern Music
Erik Satie by Alan M. Gillmor
Satie Seen Through His Letters by Ornella Volta, translated by Michael Bullock
March 30, 1989: The Reddening of America
A Turn in the South by V.S. Naipaul
December 3, 1987: Obsessed by Flaubert (letter)
July 16, 1987: Mad About the Guy
The Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and 'Madame Bovary' by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane
December 18, 1986: Catching Up with the Avant-garde
Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830–1930 by Jerrold Seigel
Pleasures of the Belle Epoque: Entertainment and Festivity in Turn-of-the-Century France by Charles Rearick
France: Fin de Siècle by Eugen Weber
Theory of the Avant-Garde by Peter Bürger, translated by Michael Shaw, foreword by Jochen Schulte-Sasse
Poets, Prophets, and Revolutionaries: The Literary Avante-Garde from Rimbaud through Postmodernism by Charles Russell
The Culture of Time and Space: 1880–1918 by Stephen Kern
The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth-Century Thought by Sanford Schwartz
Mapping Literary Modernism: Time and Development by Ricardo J. Quinones
August 16, 1984: Not Swann's Way
Swann in Love directed by Volker Schlöndorff, screenplay by Peter Brook, by Jean-Claude Carrière, by Marie-Hélène Estienne, based on "Un Amour de Swann" by Marcel Proust
March 15, 1984: Quanta
Pitch Dark by Renata Adler
April 28, 1983: Why Not the Best?
Friday by Michel Tournier, translated by Norman Denny
The Ogre by Michel Tournier, translated by Barbara Bray
Gemini by Michel Tournier, translated by Anne Carter
The Four Wise Men by Michel Tournier, translated by Ralph Manheim
Le Vent du Paraclet by Michel Tournier
June 25, 1981: Kilmartin's Way
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff, by Terence Kilmartin, by Andreas Mayor
Marcel Proust's Grasset Proofs: Commentary and Variants (distributed by the University of North Carolina Press) by Douglas W. Alden
Proust and the Art of Love: The Aesthetics of Sexuality in the Life, Times, and Art of Marcel Proust by J.E. Rivers
Proust's Recherche: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation by Randolph Splitter
Proust dans la recherche littéraire by Sigbrit Swahn
Proust's Additions: The Making of 'A la recherche du temps perdu,' by Alison Winton
June 26, 1980: Rescuing Literature: An Exchange
April 17, 1980: How to Rescue Literature
October 11, 1979: Boycott Taba (letter)
April 19, 1979: Master Classes
Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries, Selected Papers, Volume II by Meyer Schapiro
March 23, 1978: Poet in the Wings
Houseboat Days by John Ashbery
November 11, 1976: Artaud Possessed
Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings edited, and with an introduction, by Susan Sontag, translated by Helen Weaver
September 18, 1975: A Higher Selfishness?
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
September 19, 1974: Proust and the Will
October 5, 1972: The Breton Expedition (letter)
July 20, 1972: The Arsenal Explodes (letter)
June 1, 1972: The Dada-Surrealist Expedition: Part II
André Breton: Magus of Surrealism by Anna Balakian
The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp by Arturo Schwarz
May 18, 1972: The D-S Expedition: Part I
Dada and Surrealist Art by William S. Rubin
Arp on Arp by Jean Arp, translated by Joachim Neugroschel, edited with an Introduction by Marcel Jean
May 7, 1970: Empathy & Dance (letter)
March 12, 1970: After the Avant-Garde
The Theory of the Avant-Garde by Renato Poggioli, translated by Gerald Fitzgerald
The Art of Time: Essays on the Avant-Garde by Michael Kirby
The Eclipse of the Intellectual by Elémire Zolla, translated by Raymond Rosenthal
Continuities by Frank Kermode
Histoire de l'avant-garde en peinture by Germain Bazin
The Avant-Garde in Painting by Germain Bazin, translated by Simon Watson Taylor
Historia de las literaturas de vanguardia by Guillermo de Torre
October 24, 1968: The Conquerer
Anti-Memoirs by André Malraux, translated by Terence Kilmartin
August 24, 1967: Translation (letter)
June 1, 1967: The Brother of Us All
Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters Introduction, Prose Translations, and Notes by Wallace Fowlie
Rimbaud: A Critical Study by Wallace Fowlie
June 23, 1966: Fiction à la Mode
The Diary of a Rapist by Evan S. Connell Jr.
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass
February 11, 1965: Baudelaire as Critic
Baudelaire as a Literary Critic translated and edited by Lois Boe Hyslop, by Francis E. Hyslop Jr.
The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays by Charles Baudelaire, translated and edited by Jonathan Mayne
July 30, 1964: Fruits de Mer
The Oysters of Locmariaquer by Eleanor Clark. drawings by Leonid
May 14, 1964: On Translating Apollinaire
Alcools: Poems 1898-1913 by Guillaume Apollinaire, translated by William Meredith, Introduction and notes by Francis Steegmuller
From New York Review Books
 | The World I Live In The World I Live In is a thought-provoking and deeply moving account of Helen Keller's keenest impressions and deepest feelings —as well as a rediscovered classic of American writing. |
Books by Roger Shattuck
Proust's Way: A Field Guide to in Search of Lost Time (2000)
Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts (1999)
Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography (1996)
The Innocent Eye: On Modern Literature & the Arts (1984)
The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron (1980)
Marcel Proust (1974)
The Banquet Years; The Origins of the Avant Garde in France, 1885 to World War I: Alfred Jarry, Henri Rousseau, Erik Satie [and] Guillaume Pollinaire (1968)