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22 mai 2013
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulg.879
- isbn: 9782251661902
- eisbn: 9782821828759
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Hena Maes-Jelinek, « Ronald Firbank », Presses universitaires de Liège, ID : 10.4000/books.pulg.879
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To break a butterfly, or even a beetle, upon a wheel isa delicate task. Lovers of nature disapprove,moreover the victim is apt to reappear each time the wheel revolves,still alive, and with a reproachful expression upon itssquashed face to address its tormentor in some such wordsas the following: “Critic! What do you? Neither mypleasure nor your knowledge has been increased. I wasflying or crawling, and that is all there was to be learntabout me. In his preface to The Complete Ronald Firbank ...