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| Editor | Jean Narboni [fr] |
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| Author | Éric Rohmer |
| Original title | Le Goût de la beauté |
| Translator | Carol Volk |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Éditions de l'Étoile |
Publication date | 1984 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1989 |
| Pages | 214 |
| ISBN | 2-86642-016-0 |
The Taste for Beauty (French:Le Goût de la beauté) is a collection of writings on cinema by the French journalist and filmmakerÉric Rohmer. It was edited byJean Narboni [fr] and contains texts originally published in periodicals such asCahiers du Cinéma,Les Temps modernes andCombat. The original edition contains material from 1948 to 1979; several revised editions have followed.[1][2]
The book was first published in French by Éditions de l'Étoile in 1984 and in Carol Volk's English translation byCambridge University Press in 1989.[3] Reviewing the book forFilm Quarterly in 1991, Gregg Rickman wrote it was "long overdue", published long after similar English-language anthologies ofJean-Luc Godard's andFrançois Truffaut's writings, and called it "one of the most useful books published anywhere in the last few years".[3] He described the English-language edition as "handsomely produced".[3]
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