Andre maurois aspects of biography for kids

André Maurois (1885-1967) is today a largely forgotten French writer, and somewhat unjustly so, or rather for a reason that pertains more to French literary history than the intrinsic literary value of his oeuvre.

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In 1918, in his preface to Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey wrote: ‘The art of biography seems to have fallen on evil times in England. We have had, it is true, a few masterpieces, but we have never had, like the French, a great biographical tradition; we have had no Fontenelles and Condorcets, with their incomparable éloges, compressing into a few shining pages the manifold existences of men.’1 For a Frenchman today, this reads like a surprising paradox, for we are rather under the impression that, unlike the English, the French have never had a great biographical tradition: we have never had a Walton and an Aubrey, a Johnson and a Boswell, a Carlyle and a Lytton Strachey.

But we have had a Maurois. A contemporary of Lytton Strachey and the New Biography movement Aspects of Biography - Andre Maurois - Google Books GEPAP