man of letters betydelse and definition

Exempel på man of letters

• Once he established himself as a man of letters, he adopted other pseudonyms to conceal his incursion into doubtful fictional genres.

• How then is the progressive politics of this man of letters understood in relation to his literary works?

• On the other hand, the prototype of the truth seeker as a man of letters or savant is still with us.

• In this condition he decides that he must give up the ministry and take on the socially ambiguous but still potentially more securely middle-class role of the man of letters.

• If the spectre of the man of letters as bourgeois hero has come to haunt autobiography, so might those perennial questions about the nature of the self.

• I shall deal with the 1 million extra pensioners if this distinguished man of letters will keep his mouth shut for one minute.

• He was a man of letters—an author whose novels and other works reflected that same graceful urbanity that characterised his elegance of dress and manner.

• And beyond all that he was a scholar and a man of letters.