Intégrale Des Nouvelles

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Stevenson est aujourd'hui considr (aux cts d'Edgar Poe et de Henry James) comme l'un des plus grands auteurs de nouvelles de langue anglaise. L'intgrale de ce corpus considrable (prs de 1 500 pages - ici en deux volumes) n'avait jamais t rassembl en franais ce jour. Une premire due la passion et l'rudition de Michel Le Bris, spcialiste mondialement reconnu de l'crivain. A propos des textes qui se trouvent runis dans ce premier volume (l'ensemble des Nouvelles Mille et Une Nuits), Henry James, critique difficile (et rival)... mais en l'occurrence admirateur inconditionnel, livre ce jugement sans appel : " Le merveilleux sous sa forme la plus franche et la plus dlectable. "

608 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published May 1, 2001

About the author

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.

Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon.