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Victor Brombert (1923-2024) Scholar. Victor Brombert was born in Berlin, Germany, and died in Princeton, New Jersey.

Full Name

Victor Brombert

Locations

Saratoga

Author's Timeline


1923

Birth

Victor Brombert was born Victor Bromberg in Berlin, Germany, on November 11, 1923.

1948

Other Life Event

Saratoga County: Mr. Brombert worked for a time as an assistant manager of a hotel in Saratoga Springs, New York.

1961

Literary Work

The Intellectual Hero: Studies in the French Novel, 1880–1955
Philadelphia and New York: Lippincott
Literary criticism.

1966

Literary Work

The Novels of Flaubert: A Study of Themes and Techniques
Princeton: Princeton University Press
0691060851 / 978-0691060859
Literary criticism.

1968

Literary Work

Stendhal: Fiction and the Themes of Freedom
New York: Random House
Literary criticism.

1978

Literary Work

The Romantic Prison
Princeton: Princeton University Press
0691063524 / 978-0691063522
Literary criticism.

1984

Literary Work

Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
0674935500 / 978-0674935501
Literary criticism.

1988

Literary Work

The Hidden Reader: Stendhal, Balzac, Hugo, Baudelaire, Flaubert
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
0674390121 / 978-0674390126
Literary criticism.

1999

Literary Work

In Praise of Antiheroes. Figures and Themes in Modern European Literature, 1830–1980
Chicago: University of Chicago Press
0226075524 / 978-0226075525
Literary criticism.

2002

Literary Work

Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth
New York: W. W. Norton
0393051153 / 978-0393051155
Memoir.

2013

Literary Work

Musings on Mortality. From Tolstoy to Primo Levi
Chicago: University of Chicago Press
022606235X / 978-0226062358
Literary criticism.

2023

Literary Work

The Pensive Citadel
Chicago: University of Chicago Press
0226828662 / 978-0226828664
Literary criticism.

2024

Death

Victor Brombert died at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, on November 26, 2024.

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