The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron

The story of the training of a feral child who was found living wild in Southern France in 1890.

Politics & Social Sciences

ROGER SHATTUCK

Social Sciences

Pocket

This collection of essays deals with politics, theatricality, and the dynamics of literary movements

The Innocent Eye: On Modern Literature & the Arts

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Pocket Books/Washington Square Press

An illuminating work that serves as both an introduction to Proust--perhaps Europe's most enduring twentieth-century novelist--and a searching reinterpretation of his work. Since beginning his career, Roger Shattuck has been mesmerized by one writer. First came Proust's Binoculars, a short, brilliant study published in 1964. Then came Marcel Proust, commissioned by Frank Kermode for the Modern Masters series, which won the National Book Award in 1974. A series of essays, lectures, and reviews followed. Now, like Richard Ellmann, whose constant outpourings on Joyce resulted in his triumphant biography James Joyce, Roger Shattuck written a new and definitive work. Devoting special care to Proust's masterpiece In Search of Lost Time (traditionally translated as Remembrance of Things Past), Shattuck laments his subject's defenselessness against zealous editors, praises some translations, examines Proust's place in the path of aesthetic decadence blazed by Baudelaire and Wilde, and presents Proust as a novelist whose philosophical gifts were matched by his irrepressible comic sense. Proust's Way, the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, will serve as the next generation's guide to Proust.

Proust's Way

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Allen Lane/The Penguin Press

brand new, unread, no remainder marks, tight binding, excellent condition

Romanticism: Vistas, Instances, Continuities.

Peter Brooks

PAUL DE MAN

harold-bloom

Victor Brombert

M. G. Cooke

Frederick Pottle

W. K. Wimsatt

Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.: Cornell University Press, 1973

Just before dawn on January 9, 1800, a mysterious creature emerged from a forest in southern France. Although he was human in form and walked upright, his habits were those of a young male animal. He was wearing only a tattered shirt, but did not seem troubled by the cold. Showing no modesty about his nakedness, he ate greedily, seizing roasted potatoes from a hot fire. He seemed to have no language skills, only grunting occasionally. A cause celebre developed over the question of what should be done with this puzzling wild boy. People wondered: Could he learn to speak? Or be taught to eat with a knife and fork? In THE FORBIDDEN EXPERIMENT, the award-winning cultural historian Roger Shattuck offers a captivating account of this fascinating episode in intellectual history. He examines the relationships that developed among the boy, soon named Victor; Madame Guerin, the woman who fed and washed him; and Itard, the tutor who defiled his colleagues who believed the boy was hopelessly retarded. Shattuck helps modern readers form many of the questions that still haunt parents, special education teachers, guidance counselors, and all students of human behavior to this day: How do children acquire language? How do deaf and mute children learn? Can children who have been neglected or abused ever learn to trust the world? Like a true-life tale of adventure rolled into a detective story, Roger Shattuck's riveting account of the Wild Boy of Aveyron is an unforgettable telling of one of history's greatest mystery stories.

The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron (Kodansha Globe)

History

Europe

Kodansha Globe

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