The Letters of Brendan Behan ed. by E.H. Mikhail (review)

190 LEITERS IN CANADA 1992 man shows us a in many ways Pascal. Both have a taste for solitude and i"'n.,"~a.""· to communicate the impresthe scene or· object In SUI,seqUient OC,..:-IOV,"". Zimmerman out other ...................,,11'\......."', a:ttuutles, between Rousseau and conscious opposition to was in many ways a true rousseauiste. In continues. and elaborates the work Starobinski. quibble has to do with references (footnotes and parenthetical some of have made funer and For eXBlml)Je, on 65-6, Zimmerman tells us that Baudelaire in the poet's own words, a 'theorie de la vraie civilisation,' the definition of which he At the end of the quotation, the only reference is '[xxxu, i::I!-":;\..J.II:IU,:n, will readily a from Baudemtl !mes. in this case, 'Mon cceur mis nu,' 58. A not so find the source of the .....a,:>i:lIuM.~. sorne'NI1,at rrnSleacllng. An ibid near the of p 66, for I-'U~'.:JUJ"'O;;;':> which immediately precceur mis a nu'), but to a 'L'ceuvre et la vie More notes with fuller infonnation (or a list of would have increased of this book for scholars whose speciality is not nu\et~E!er\th-ce:ntl.lr literature. All scholars with an interest in Baudelaire, Rousseau, or eighteenthand intellectual will find these to be of interest. I recommend that lists and in their libraries. Likewise, sctlOl;iUS .... "',..."f-'i .."" literature will or provides a vivid Baudelaire as a writer who created himself and his hi'o,...." ..."