Roger Shattuck
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"So described, Faust's attitude of self-gratification resembles that of many characters in the novels of a French author writing during the same revolutionary period. One could read the heinous episodes of the Marquis de Sade's Juliette as a violently dehumanized caricature of Faust. Having made a semiwager to outshine and outperform her virtuous sister, Justine, Juliette conquers Europe by abandoning all constraints, all scruples, and all feelings. And the gods favor her triumph by destroying her victimized sister with a symbolic bolt of lightning. I shall deal further with Sade in Chapter VII."-- Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography (1994) by Roger Shattuck |
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Roger Shattuck (August 20, 1923 – December 8, 2005) was an American writer best known for his books on French literature, art, and music of the twentieth century.
Life
Born in New York to parents Howard Francis Shattuck, a physician, and Elizabeth (Colt) Shattuck, he attended Yale after graduating from St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, before serving as a pilot in the Pacific theater during the Second World War. After the war, he lived in Paris where he worked for UNESCO's film service. In this capacity he came into contact with luminaries of European culture such as Jean Cocteau, Alice B. Toklas and Georges Braque, and met his future wife Nora White, a dancer with the Ballets Russes.
In addition to a long list of distinguished translations from the French, Shattuck's works include:
- The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I (1958)
- Proust's Binoculars (1963)
- Half Tame (1964)
- The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron (1980)
- Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography (1994)
- Proust's Way: A Field Guide to 'In Search of Lost Time (2000)
Shattuck's essays frequently appeared in The New York Review of Books and other publications.
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An American Dream (novel), Antonin Artaud, Audience (magazine), Bollingen Foundation, Flaubert's letters, Fontana Modern Masters, Geoffrey Brereton, In Search of Lost Time, Language deprivation experiments, Marcel Proust, Marquis de Sade, National Book Award for Nonfiction, 'Pataphysics, Philip Krumm, Pièces froides, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Récit, Salmagundi (magazine), Victor of Aveyron, Vincent Stuart Ltd., Wallace Fowlie
