George D. Painter (1914–2005)
Autore di Marcel Proust
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Painter, George Duncan
- Data di nascita
- 1914-06-05
- Data di morte
- 2005-12-08
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Istruzione
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Attività lavorative
- biographer
incunabulist - Organizzazioni
- British Museum (Department of Printed Books)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- OBE
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 15
- Opere correlate
- 6
- Utenti
- 695
- Popolarità
- #36,412
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 37
- Lingue
- 5
Cracks start to appear when he moves on to Caxton’s time as a diplomat. Painter fails to properly introduce the political players involved so we’re left adrift in a sea of names. At other times the reverse is the problem. He may mention some person who was tangentially involved with Caxton and gives their entire bloody life story in a footnote only for them never to appear again. It’s impossible to know at the time what information your brain needs to retain. His account of the printing business is sometimes interesting, sometimes dull. How is it possible to make an account of the first books printed in England dull? Painter is not a particularly good writer and at times this reads like a source book for a real biographer to use.… (altro)