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Con Madame de Staël, la baronesa de la libertad, Xavier Roca-Ferrer realiza una pionera y fundamental biografía de este imprescindible personaje de la cultura europea. Un ensayo a la vez biográfico, cultural e histórico-político sobre la figura excepcional de la baronesa de Staël, considerada “madre espiritual de la Europa moderna” y, sin embargo, poco y mal conocida en nuestras latitudes. Criada en un ambiente excepcional, en la "corte" de sus padres -él, todopoderoso financiero suizo, y ella, anfitriona de uno de los salones más importantes de la Ilustración francesa-, Germaine Necker, más conocida como Madame de Staél por su matrimonio con el embajador sueco en Francia, el barón de Staël von Holstein, mostró muy pronto dotes de niña prodigio. Llevó una azarosa vida llena de amantes, pasión intelectual y altibajos emocionales, y en contacto permanente con grandes personajes de la cultura como Diderot, Constant, A. W. Schlegel, Tayllerand, Goethe, Schiller, Lord Byron.... Realizó una audaz obra literaria entre novelas, ensayos y estudios históricos y críticos, y estos últimos la sitúan hoy como pionera de los estudios de literatura comparada. Doscientos...

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Découvrez les oeuvres complètes de Madame de Staël, une figure de la littérature française qui a marqué son temps. Ce recueil indispensable rassemble ses romans, ses essais et ses poèmes pour une plongée dans l'univers de cette grande dame de lettres. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from Madame De Staël Unpublished correspondence - that delight of the eager biographer - is not to be had in the case of Madame de Stael, for, as is well known, the De Broglie family either destroyed or successfully hid all the papers which might have revealed any facts not already in possession of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The influence of the salons of Paris on the thought and culture of the eighteenth century would be difficult to overstate. They were both intellectual powerhouses and also assemblies where the latest and most extreme fashion was displayed. 'Young gallants...wearing silk waistcoats embroidered with Chinese pagodas, making love to ladies reclining negligently against the cushions...or accepting small cups of chocolate from the hands of Negro pages', thus Harold Nicolson describes the drawings of the time in his book "The Age of Reason". These meeting places for the vanguard of society were presided over by a succession of brilliantly clever women, the salonieres, and the most brilliant and clever of all of them was Madame de Stael. Although she died at the age of 51 she filled her life to the brim, and enjoyed a hugely influential role among the great names of the day. Born Germaine Necker, in Paris on 22 April 1766, her father was a powerful banker and her mother a Swiss pastor's daughter who never got over her good fortune in marrying a rich man. In 1786 Germaine was married to a secretary in the Swedish embassy called de Stael, but although she thought him 'a perfect gentleman'...