Robert Baldick

Robert André Edouard Baldick, FRSL (9 November 1927 – April 1972),^[1] was a British scholar of French literature, writer, joint editor of the Penguin Classics series with Betty Radice, and a well-known translator. He was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.

He wrote eight books including biographies of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Frédérick Lemaître and Henry Murger and a history of the Siege of Paris. In addition he edited and translated The Goncourt Journals and a number of the classics of French literature including works by Gustave Flaubert, Chateaubriand, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jules Verne, and Henri Barbusse, as well as a number of novels by Georges Simenon.

His son is English academic Chris Baldick.

Bibliography

• The Life of Joris Karl Huysmans.(Published originally by Oxford University Press, 1955. New edition revised by Brendan King, Dedalus Books 2006)
• Dinner at Magny's (Published by Victor Gollancz, London) ^[2]
• The Life and Times of Frederick Lemaitre (Published by Hamish Hamilton)
• The Goncourts (Published by Bowes and Bowes)
• The First Bohemian: The Life of Henry Murger (Published by Hamish Hamilton)
• The Siege of Paris (Published by Batsford)
• The Duel: A History of Duelling (Published by Chapman and Hall)
• The Memoirs of Chateaubriand (Edited, translated and published by Hamish Hamilton)
• Pages from the Goncourt Journal (Edited and translated by Oxford University Press)
• Memoirs (Chateaubriand - Translator from French to English)
• Pages from The Goncourt Journal (Translator from French to English)
• Sentimental Education (Flaubert - Translator from French to English)
• Against Nature (Huysmans - Translator from French to English)
• Hell (Barbusse - Translator from French to English)

See also

• Translated Penguin Book - at Penguin First Editions reference site of early first edition Penguin Books.
• Robert Baldock (disambiguation)

Footnotes

1. O'Driscoll, Kieran (2011), Retranslation Through the Centuries: Jules Verne in English, Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 151–152
2. Biographical detail taken from a copy Dinner at Magny's, published by Gollancz in 1971