Robert Baldick

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

For the television drama, see The Incredible Robert Baldick.

For people of a similar name, see Robert Baldock.

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 other 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 Frédérick Lemaître (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)
• Nausea (Sartre - 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)
• Aphrodite (1972) from Aphrodite: mœurs antiques by Pierre Louÿs (Translator from French to English)[3]

See also

• Translated Penguin Book - at Penguin First Editions reference site of early first edition Penguin Books.

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
3. London: Panther. ISBN 0-586-03517-6.