Titles in the series Critical Lives present the work of leading cultural figures of the modern period. Each book explores the life of the artist, writer, philosopher or architect in question and relates it to their major works.

In the same series

Jean Genet
Stephen Barber

Michel Foucault
David Macey

Pablo Picasso
Mary Ann Caws

Franz Kafka
Sander L. Gilman

Guy Debord
Andy Merrifleld

Marcel Duchamp
Caroline Cros

James Joyce
Andrew Gibson

Frank Lloyd
Wright Robert McCarter

Jean-Paul Sartre
Andrew Leak

Noam Chomsky
Wolfgang B. Sperlich

Jorge Luis
Borges Jason Wilson

Erik Satie
Mary E. Davis

Georges Bataille
Stuart Kendall

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Edward Kanterian

Octavio Paz
Nick Caistor

Walter Benjamin
Esther Leslie

Charles Baudelaire
Rosemary Lloyd

Jean Cocteau
James S. Williams

Sergei Eisenstein
Mike O’Mahony

Salvador Dalí
Mary Ann Caws

Simone de Beauvoir
Ursula Tidd

Edgar Allan
Poe Kevin J. Hayes

Gertrude Stein
Lucy Daniel

Pablo Neruda
Dominic Moran