What's the difference between essayist and litterateur?
Essayist
Definition:
(n.) A writer of an essay, or of essays.
Example Sentences:
(1) Havel was a renowned playwright and essayist who, after the crushing of the Prague spring in 1968, was drawn increasingly into the political struggle against the Czechoslovakian communist dictatorship, which he called Absurdistan.
(2) Many critics, including biographer Bernard Crick, see Orwell's claim to literary greatness resting much more upon his talents as an essayist - on everything from Politics and the English Language to the perfect cup of tea - than on his novels.
(3) Frank (15 August) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Loosely based on essayist Jon Ronson's youthful exploits as a keyboard player for Frank Sidebottom's band, this surreal rock comedy featuring Michael Fassbender in an enormous papier mâché head is a touching and sincere look at mental illness and the dangers of perceived genius.
(4) She also assesses how the other essayists in this issue offer solutions to the debate in light of a pluralism of moral beliefs in Western culture.
(5) One of his idols was the critic and essayist Max Beerbohm, whose biography his father had written and whose work Jonathan, with the aid of Roger Frith , turned into a one-man show, The Incomparable Max.
(6) Then, as now, it had spawned a corresponding ideology – a faith in liberal free trade as a global panacea – with, perhaps, the English philosopher Herbert Spencer in the role of the End of History essayist Francis Fukuyama .
(7) "The thought that leads me to contemplate with dread the erasure of other voices, of unwritten novels, poems whispered or swallowed for fear of being overheard by the wrong people, outlawed languages flourishing underground, essayists' questions challenging authority never being posed, unstaged plays, cancelled films – that thought is a nightmare.
(8) Poet and essayist Peter Balakian, whose memoir Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past was published in Turkey by Belge, called the arrest "a blow to Turkey's efforts to create a free and open society".
(9) John Jay Chapman, an American political essayist, wrote this about radicals in 1900: "They are really always saying the same thing.
(10) In his article, Hari thanked those who had helped him realise that "an interview is not just an essayistic representation of what the person thinks; it is a report on an encounter between the interviewer and interviewee".
(11) The American essayist Walter Lippmann, in his famous 1922 book , Public Opinion , made it plain that the press could not live without the subsidy of advertising.
(12) HL Mencken, the great American essayist and reporter, called the 1932 disappearance of the baby son of aviator Charles Lindbergh "the biggest story since the Resurrection", but neither the Lindbergh baby kidnap and murder, nor Christ's rising from the dead, took place in the internet age.
(13) Dominique Venner , 78, a far-right essayist and historian took his life in front of the altar at Notre Dame on Tuesday after writing a blog condemning France's recently passed law allowing same-sex marriage and adoption.
(14) "As with so many 'new trends', this one has a fairly distinguished prehistory," explains essayist and author Geoff Dyer .
(15) "I'm one of the very few essayists still in print," she says.
(16) The magazine published work by such distinguished literary critics and essayists as Raymond Williams, Frank Kermode and Al Alvarez as well as by political writers from across the non-communist spectrum.
(17) Literary critic, philosopher, essayist, he was a man of words.
(18) One essayist suggests that continuous monitoring of alveolar and inspiratory concentrations of anesthetic and respiratory gases has little or no positive effect on patient outcome and may even be detrimental to patients.
(19) Will Self WG Sebald, who died in a car crash in 2001, was an inspired essayist, quite as much as he was a novelist; indeed, I often think of his most achieved fictions – Austerlitz , and The Emigrants – as writing that tests the limits of both forms, blending them together at their margins with a kind of vaporous diffusion of their creator's lucidity, so entirely are the invented and the real fused together.
(20) Playwright David Hare said today that Vidal didn't have "a fictional bone in his body", but that he was a "genius essayist".
Litterateur
Definition:
(n.) One who occupies himself with literature; a literary man; a literatus.