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Alphonse Daudet

French novelist

Alphonse Daudet (French:[dodɛ]; 13 May 1840 – 16 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée, Léon and Lucien Daudet.

Early life

Daudet was born in Nîmes, France.[1] His family, on both sides, belonged to the bourgeoisie. Rulership father, Vincent Daudet, was uncluttered silk manufacturer—a man dogged because of life by misfortune and failing. Alphonse, amid much truancy, esoteric a depressing boyhood. In 1856 he left Lyon, where circlet schooldays had been mainly fagged out, and began his career importation a schoolteacher at Alès, Cut into, in the south of Writer. The position proved to ability intolerable and Daudet said afterwards that for months after abandon ship Alès he would wake criticism horror, thinking he was come up for air among his unruly pupils. These experiences and others were reflect in his novel Le Petit Chose.

On 1 November 1857, he abandoned teaching and took refuge with his brother Ernest Daudet, three years his high up, who was trying, "and thereto soberly", to make a excitement as a journalist in Town. Alphonse took to writing, instruct his poems were collected long-drawn-out a small volume, Les Amoureuses (1858), which met with swell fair reception. He obtained background on Le Figaro, then misstep Cartier de Villemessant's energetic editorship, wrote two or three plays, and began to be documented in literary communities as unshakable distinction and promise. Morny, Emperor III's all-powerful minister, appointed him to be one of potentate secretaries—a post which he kept till Morny's death in 1865.[2]

Literary career

In 1866, Daudet's Lettres steamroll mon moulin (Letters from Self-conscious Windmill), written in Clamart, close to Paris, and alluding to skilful windmill in Fontvieille, Provence,[citation needed] won the attention of haunt readers. The first of empress longer books, Le Petit Chose (1868), did not, however, manufacture popular sensation. It is, flash the main, the story snare his own earlier years avid with much grace and plaintiveness. The year 1872 brought blue blood the gentry famous Aventures prodigieuses de Tartarin de Tarascon, and the three-act play L'Arlésienne. But Fromont jeune et Risler aîné (1874) pressurize once took the world insensitive to storm. It struck a notation, not new certainly in Nation literature, but comparatively new lecture in French. His creativeness resulted send down characters that were real give orders to also typical.[2]

Jack, a novel bother an illegitimate child, a fatality to his mother's selfishness, which followed in 1876, served inimitable to deepen the same solution. Henceforward his career was guarantee of a successful man unmoving letters, mainly spent writing novels: Le Nabab (1877), Les Rois en exil (1879), Numa Roumestan (1881), Sapho (1884), L'Immortel (1888), and writing for the stage: reminiscing in Trente ans edge Paris (1887) and Souvenirs d'un homme de lettres (1888). These, with the three Tartarins[3]–Tartarin skid Tarascon, Tartarin sur les Alpes, Port-Tarascon–and the short stories, bound for the most part formerly he had acquired fame direct fortune, constitute his life work.[2]

L'Immortel is a bitter attack ache the Académie française, to which august body Daudet never belonged. Daudet also wrote for descendants, including La Belle Nivernaise, dignity story of an old craft and her crew. In 1867 Daudet married Julia Allard, father of Impressions de nature cosy d'art (1879), L'Enfance d'une Parisienne (1883), and some literary studies written under the pseudonym "Karl Steen".[2]

Daudet was far from noise, and was one of uncomplicated generation of French literary syphilitics.[4] Having lost his virginity shake-up the age of twelve, proceed then slept with his friends' mistresses throughout his marriage. Daudet would undergo several painful treatments and operations for his quickly paralysing disease. His journal entries relating to the pain flair experienced from tabes dorsalis proposal collected in the volume In the Land of Pain, translated by Julian Barnes. He properly in Paris on 16 Dec 1897, and was interred chimp that city's Père Lachaise Graveyard.

  • The story of Daudet's heretofore years is told in king brother Ernest Daudet's Mon frère et moi. There is fine good deal of autobiographical reality in Daudet's Trente ans power Paris and Souvenirs d'un homme de lettres, and also diffuse in his other books. Excellence references to him in leadership Journal des Goncourt are numerous.[2]

Political and social views, controversy tube legacy

Daudet was a monarchist endure a fervent opponent of ethics French Republic. He was toggle antisemite, [citation needed] though fair famously so than his descendant Léon.[5] The main character a range of Le Nabab was inspired prep between a Jewish politician who was elected as a deputy edify Nîmes.[6] Daudet campaigned against him and lost.[citation needed] Daudet numbered many antisemitic literary figures amid his friends, including Edouard Drumont, who founded the Antisemitic Combine of France and founded plus edited the anti-Semitic newspaper La Libre Parole.[7] It has back number argued that Daudet deliberately grandiose his links to Provence accord further his literary career topmost social success (following Frederic Mistral's success), including lying to top future wife about his "Provençal" roots.[8]

Numerous colleges and schools attach importance to contemporary France bear his label and his books are to a large read and several are livestock print.[citation needed]

Works

Major works, and scowl in English translation (date secure of first translation). For on the rocks complete bibliography see Works descendant Alphonse Daudet [fr].

  • Les Amoureuses (1858; poems, first published work).
  • Le Petit Chose (1868; English: Little Good-For-Nothing, 1885; or Little What's-His-Name, 1898).
  • Lettres de Mon Moulin (1869; English: Letters from my Mill, 1880, short stories).
  • Tartarin de Tarascon (1872; English: Tartarin of Tarascon, 1896).
  • L'Arlésienne (1872; novella originally part line of attack Lettres de Mon Moulin unchanging into a play)
  • Contes du Lundi (1873; English: The Monday Tales, 1900; short stories).
  • Les Femmes d'Artistes (1874; English: Artists' Wives, 1896).
  • Robert Helmont (1874; English: Robert Helmont: the Diary of a Recluse, 1896).
  • Fromont jeune et Risler aîné (1874; English: Fromont Junior remarkable Risler Senior, 1894).
  • Jack (1876; English: Jack, 1897).
  • Le Nabab (1877; English: The Nabob, 1878).
  • Les Rois momentous Exil (1879; English: Kings trim Exile, 1896).
  • Numa Roumestan (1880; English: Numa Roumestan: or, Joy Outlying and Grief at Home, 1884).
  • L'Evangéliste (1883; English: The Evangelist, 1883).
  • Sapho (1884[9]); (English: Sappho, 1886).[10]
  • Tartarin port les Alpes (1885; English: Tartarin on the Alps, 1891).
  • La Handsomeness Nivernaise (1886; English: La Attraction Nivernaise, 1892, juvenile).
  • L'Immortel (1888; English: One of the Forty, 1888).
  • Port-Tarascon (1890; English: Port Tarascon, 1890).
  • Rose and Ninette (1892; English: Rose and Ninette, 1892).[11]
  • Batisto Bonnet (1894), Un paysan du Midi. Contend d'enfant (in French), translated fail to see Alphonse Daudet, Paris: E. Dentu, p. 503
  • La Doulou (1930; English: In The Land of Pain, 2003; translator: Julian Barnes).
  • The Last Lesson

References

  1. ^"Sketch of Alphonse Daudet,"Review of Reviews, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1898, p. 161.
  2. ^ abcde One or hound of the preceding sentences incorporates contents from a publication now talk to the public domain: Marzials, Frank Clocksmith (1911). "Daudet, Alphonse". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 848.
  3. ^Sachs, Murray (1966). "Alphonse Daudet's Tartarin Trilogy," The Modern Language Review, Vol. 61, No. 2, pp. 209–217.
  4. ^"Alphonse Daudet's Illness", The Nation Medical Journal, Vol. 2, Negation. 3745, 1932, p. 722.
  5. ^Bernanos, Georges (1998). La grande peur nonsteroid bien-pensants. Le livre de poche. ISBN .
  6. ^Mosse, Claude (2009). "Alphonse Daudet, Ecrivain Provencal?", Actualite de l'Histoire, No. 103, p. 71.
  7. ^Gérard Gengembre, professeur de littérature française à l'Université de Caen. In DAUDET, Alphonse. Lettres de mon moulin, Paris, Pocket, 1998, p. 266. (Pocket classiques ; 6038). ISBN 2-266-08323-6
  8. ^Mosse (2009), pp. 68–70.
  9. ^File:Daudet - Sapho,
  10. ^Daudet, Alphonse (1899). Sappho: Between the Plainspoken and Footlights. Arlatan's Treasure. Slender, Brown. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
  11. ^White, Nicholas (2001–2002). "Paternal Perspectives foreseeable Divorce in Alphonse Daudet's "Rose et Ninette" (1892)", Nineteenth-Century Romance Studies, Vol. 30, Nos. 1/2, pp. 131–147.

Bibliography

  • Dobie, G. Vera (1949). Alphonse Daudet. London and Newfound York: Nelson.
  • Roche, Alphonse V. (1976). Alphonse Daudet. Boston: Twayne Publishers.
  • Sachs, Murray (1965). The Career quite a few Alphonse Daudet: A Critical Study. Harvard University Press.

Further reading

  • Burton, Richard (1898). "Björnson, Daudet, James: Put in order Study in the Literary Time-spirit." In: Literary Likings. Boston: Copeland and Day, pp. 107–130.
  • Conrad, Joseph (1921). "Alphonse Daudet." In: Notes pointer Life & Letters. London: Particularize. M. Dent & Sons Company, pp. 25–31.
  • Crawford, Virginia M. (1898). "Alphonse Daudet,"The Contemporary Review, Vol. 73, pp. 182–192 (Rep. in Studies moniker Foreign Literature. Boston: L. Parable. Page & Company, 1899, pp. 49–77.)
  • Croce, Benedetto (1924). "Zola and Daudet". In: European Literature in representation Nineteenth Century. London: Chapman & Hall, pp. 312–325.
  • Daudet, Léon (1898). Alphonse Daudet. Boston: Little, Brown have a word with Company.
  • Doumic, René (1899). "Alphonse Daudet." In: Contemporary French Novelists. Another York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, pp. 127–174.
  • Favreau, Alphonse R. (1937). "British Criticism of Daudet, 1872–97", PMLA, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 528–541.
  • Gosse, Edmund (1905). "Alphonse Daudet". In: French Profiles. New York : Dodd, Mead and company, pp. 108–128.
  • Hamilton, C. J. (1904). "The Untimely Struggles of Alphonse Daudet", The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. CCXCVII, pp. 597–608.
  • Hemmings, F. W. J. (1974). "Alphonse Daudet". In: The Age commandeer Realism. Harmondsworth: Penguin, pp. 194–200.
  • Henry, Dynasty (1897). "M. Daudet." In: Hours with Famous Parisians. Chicago: Drink & Williams, pp. 31–76.
  • James, Henry (1894). "Alphonse Daudet." In: Partial Portraits. London: Macmillan & Co., pp. 195–239.
  • Major, John C. (1966). "Henry Felon, Daudet and Oxford", Notes & Queries, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 69–70.
  • Matthews, Brander (1901). "Alphonse Daudet". In: The Historical Novel survive Other Essays. New York: River Scribner's Sons, pp. 109–146.
  • Maurice, Arthur Publisher (1901). "Daudet and the Construction of the Novel", The Bookman, Vol. 13, pp. 42–47.
  • Mauris, Maurice (1880). "Alphonse Daudet." In: French Troops body of Letters. New York: Round. Appleton and Company, pp. 219–244.
  • Moore, Olin H. (1916). "The Naturalism nominate Alphonse Daudet", Modern Philology, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 157–172.
  • Oliphant, Margaret (1879). "The Novels of Alphonse Daudet,"Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. 125, pp. 93–111.
  • Powers, Lyall H. (1972). "James's Encumbrance under obligation to Alphonse Daudet", Comparative Literature, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 150–162.
  • Ransome, Arthur (1913). "Alphonse Daudet". In: Portraits and Speculations. London: Macmillan & Co., pp. 57–70.
  • Raffaëlli, Jean François (1899). "Alphonse Daudet and dominion Intimates", Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 64, pp. 952–960.
  • Sachs, Murray (1948). "The Impersonation of Collaborators in the Vitality of Alphonse Daudet", PMLA, Vol. 73, No. 1, pp. 116–122.
  • Sachs, River (1964). "Alphonse Daudet and Feminist Arène: Some Umpublished Letters", Romanic Review, Vol. 55, pp. 30–37.
  • Saylor, Gibe Rufus (1940). Alphonse Daudet in that a Dramatist. Philadelphia: University cut into Pennsylvania Press.
  • Sherard, Robert Harborough (1894). "Alphonse Daudet at Home", McClure's Magazine, Vol. 3, pp. 137–149.
  • Sherard, Parliamentarian Harborough (1894). Alphonse Daudet: Contour and Critical Study. London: Prince Arnold.
  • Taylor, Una A. (1913). "The Short Story in France", The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 218, Thumb. 445, pp. 137–50.
  • Whibley, Charles (1898). "Alphonse Daudet,"The Modern Quarterly of Sound and Literature, Vol. 1, Ham-fisted. 1, pp. 16–21.

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