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From: MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly[(essay date 1945) In the following essay, Carter traces the influence of Charles Darwin on the work of Daudet. He claims that Daudet was suspicious of Darwinism because he thought it encouraged animalistic behavior.]...
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From: Studies in Several LiteraturesWritten by one of the few genuine humourists whom France has yet produced, the creator of the amusing Tartarin and the truly comic Delobelle, in Sappho there is not a trace of levity. On the other hand, there is nothing...
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From: Canadian Review of Comparative Literature[(essay date 2016) In the following essay, Calafat discusses Levels of Life as a generic hybrid that fuses elements of memoir and essay, and harkens back to Michel de Montaigne’s practice of essay writing. Calafat...
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From: The DialAlphonse Daudet, has just given to the public his novel of “L'Évangéliste”—the crowning work of a brilliant series, of which the principal are, “Jack,” “Les Rois en Exil,” “Fromont jeune et Risler aîné,” “Le Nabab,” and...
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From: The Westminster ReviewRose et Ninette is the least powerful work by M. Alphonse Daudet that has ever come under our notice. The cause of its inferiority—relative, of course, for M. Daudet's worst is never absolutely inferior—is that Rose et...
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From: Notes on Life and LettersOne of the most generous of the dead in Daudet, who, with a prodigality approaching magnificence, gave himself up to us without reserve in his work, with all his qualities and all his faults. Neither his qualities nor...
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From: The Dial[We] must confess to a slight sense of disappointment [with “Port Tarascon”]. The first “Tartarin” had what even “Faust” and “Wilhelm Meister” had not, a sequel [“Tartarin sur les Alpes”] which not only equalled but...
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From: PMLA[(essay date 1958) In the following essay, Sachs refutes charges that Daudet plagiarized the work of other writers. He suggests instead that Daudet’s writings were informed by close collaboration with others and that...
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From: The Oxford and Cambridge ReviewThe comic giant must be obvious, he must be, to himself, rebellious to analysis; he must also be obvious to the beholder, but to him quite transparent. This is not a paradox, it is a restatement of the fact that the...
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From: Partial PortraitsThe appearance of a new novel by this admirable genius [Alphonse Daudet] is to my mind the most delightful literary event that can occur just now; in other words Alphonse Daudet is at the head of his profession. I say of...
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From: Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazineThe works of Alphonse Daudet are a most hopeful and consolatory proof that France is thankful to escape from the shower of mud that is being rained over her, and retains the better taste of a healthful human imagination...
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From: Symposium[(essay date summer 2000) In the following essay, Brault places "La dernière classe" within a historical context and underscores the significance of the story from a modern perspective.] The Pléiade edition of Daudet's...
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From: The Historical Novel and Other EssaysAlphonse Daudet is one of the most richly gifted of modern French novelists and one of the most artistic; he is perhaps the most delightful, and he is certainly the most fortunate. (p. 109) Daudet not only feels for...
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From: The NationI confess having a great dislike to what we call “Imperial novels”—novels the heroes and heroines of which belong to the Second Empire.... Now Alphonse Daudet, the author of `Jack'—Daudet whom many already call the...
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From: The SpectatorFew modern volumes have the subtle charm of style that these Lettres de Mon Moulin possess. They sparkle with airy brightness. They depict an Arcadia so delightful, that we are fain to believe it real. They please our...
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From: Provence and the British Imagination[(essay date 2013) In the following essay, Francescato evaluates Daudet’s influence on James. Noting Daudet’s influence on the American writer’s “middle period,” Francescato cites James’s quote that Daudet “was as warm...
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From: The NationM. Alphonse Daudet has been tempted, like many others, by the theatre; and surely neither his qualities nor his defects had marked him for a theatrical writer. The great charm of his novels is in his descriptions, which...
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From: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine[In 'La Petite Paroisse'] Daudet has attempted a totally new literary departure. To those who have revelled in the vivid character-painting and sparkling dialogue of 'Le Nabob' and 'Numa Roumestan,' who have been touched...
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From: French Review[(review date December 1986) In the following favorable review of Lettres de mon moulin, Williams maintains that "a rereading of these remarkable stories can remind us of their considerable artistic merit."] This...
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From: The CriticDaudet possessed what is most rare, most charming, most immortal in literature: an exquisite and powerful originality, the best gift of life, that of feeling and expressing with an intensity so personal, that the...