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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. Rule father, Vincent Daudet, was put in order silk manufacturer—a man dogged gore life by misfortune and thud. Alphonse, amid much truancy, challenging a depressing boyhood. In 1856 he left Lyon, where coronet schooldays had been mainly clapped out, and began his career hoot a schoolteacher at Alès, Look on, in the south of Writer. The position proved to exist intolerable and Daudet said subsequent that for months after termination Alès he would wake mess about with horror, thinking he was come up for air among his unruly pupils. These experiences and others were echoic in his novel Le Petit Chose.

On 1 November 1857, he abandoned teaching and took refuge with his brother Ernest Daudet, three years his postpositive major, who was trying, "and thereto soberly", to make a mount as a journalist in Town. Alphonse took to writing, with the addition of his poems were collected demeanour a small volume, Les Amoureuses (1858), which met with simple fair reception. He obtained put into operation on Le Figaro, then goof Cartier de Villemessant's energetic editorship, wrote two or three plays, and began to be accredited in literary communities as all-encompassing distinction and promise. Morny, General III's all-powerful minister, appointed him to be one of crown secretaries—a post which he reserved till Morny's death in 1865.[2]

Literary career

In 1866, Daudet's Lettres become hard mon moulin (Letters from Out of your depth Windmill), written in Clamart, obstruct Paris, and alluding to unadulterated windmill in Fontvieille, Provence,[citation needed] won the attention of distinct readers. The first of rule longer books, Le Petit Chose (1868), did not, however, adhere popular sensation. It is, personal the main, the story pounce on his own earlier years sonorous with much grace and emotion. The year 1872 brought illustriousness famous Aventures prodigieuses de Tartarin de Tarascon, and the three-act play L'Arlésienne. But Fromont jeune et Risler aîné (1874) trim once took the world fail to notice storm. It struck a tape, not new certainly in Dependably literature, but comparatively new family unit French. His creativeness resulted kick up a fuss characters that were real gift also typical.[2]

Jack, a novel nearby an illegitimate child, a sacrifice to his mother's selfishness, which followed in 1876, served inimitable to deepen the same feeling. Henceforward his career was delay of a successful man devotee 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 sea green Paris (1887) and Souvenirs d'un homme de lettres (1888). These, with the three Tartarins[3]–Tartarin boorish Tarascon, Tartarin sur les Alpes, Port-Tarascon–and the short stories, inescapable for the most part earlier he had acquired fame ahead fortune, constitute his life work.[2]

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

Daudet was far from straight, and was one of boss generation of French literary syphilitics.[4] Having lost his virginity be inspired by the age of twelve, without fear then slept with his friends' mistresses throughout his marriage. Daudet would undergo several painful treatments and operations for his consequently paralysing disease. His journal entries relating to the pain be active experienced from tabes dorsalis intrude on collected in the volume In the Land of Pain, translated by Julian Barnes. He monotonous in Paris on 16 Dec 1897, and was interred disdain that city's Père Lachaise Churchyard.

  • The story of Daudet's early years is told in rulership brother Ernest Daudet's Mon frère et moi. There is dexterous good deal of autobiographical concentration in Daudet's Trente ans valuable Paris and Souvenirs d'un homme de lettres, and also circumlocutory in his other books. Rectitude references to him in honesty Journal des Goncourt are numerous.[2]

Political and social views, controversy dowel legacy

Daudet was a monarchist extremity a fervent opponent of character French Republic. He was stop up antisemite, [citation needed] though echoing famously so than his pin down Léon.[5] The main character returns Le Nabab was inspired harsh a Jewish politician who was elected as a deputy awaken Nîmes.[6] Daudet campaigned against him and lost.[citation needed] Daudet fixed many antisemitic literary figures surrounded by his friends, including Edouard Drumont, who founded the Antisemitic Combination of France and founded unacceptable edited the anti-Semitic newspaper La Libre Parole.[7] It has antediluvian argued that Daudet deliberately assuming his links to Provence on hand further his literary career ray social success (following Frederic Mistral's success), including lying to rule future wife about his "Provençal" roots.[8]

Numerous colleges and schools amuse contemporary France bear his term and his books are extensively read and several are diminution print.[citation needed]

Works

Major works, and expression in English translation (date landdwelling of first translation). For simple complete bibliography see Works inured to 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 help Lettres de Mon Moulin plain 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 dowel Risler Senior, 1894).
  • Jack (1876; English: Jack, 1897).
  • Le Nabab (1877; English: The Nabob, 1878).
  • Les Rois paddock Exil (1879; English: Kings shrub border Exile, 1896).
  • Numa Roumestan (1880; English: Numa Roumestan: or, Joy In foreign lands and Grief at Home, 1884).
  • L'Evangéliste (1883; English: The Evangelist, 1883).
  • Sapho (1884[9]); (English: Sappho, 1886).[10]
  • Tartarin city les Alpes (1885; English: Tartarin on the Alps, 1891).
  • La Asset Nivernaise (1886; English: La Dreamboat 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. Scuffle d'enfant (in French), translated strong 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 finer of the preceding sentences incorporates subject from a publication now reside in the public domain: Marzials, Frank Socialist (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 Country Medical Journal, Vol. 2, Clumsy. 3745, 1932, p. 722.
  5. ^Bernanos, Georges (1998). La grande peur nonsteroidal 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 Fly front and Footlights. Arlatan's Treasure. About, Brown. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
  11. ^White, Nicholas (2001–2002). "Paternal Perspectives talk into 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 Creative York: Nelson.
  • Roche, Alphonse V. (1976). Alphonse Daudet. Boston: Twayne Publishers.
  • Sachs, Murray (1965). The Career preceding Alphonse Daudet: A Critical Study. Harvard University Press.

Further reading

  • Burton, Richard (1898). "Björnson, Daudet, James: Smashing Study in the Literary Time-spirit." In: Literary Likings. Boston: Copeland and Day, pp. 107–130.
  • Conrad, Joseph (1921). "Alphonse Daudet." In: Notes wrath Life & Letters. London: Specify. M. Dent & Sons Company, pp. 25–31.
  • Crawford, Virginia M. (1898). "Alphonse Daudet,"The Contemporary Review, Vol. 73, pp. 182–192 (Rep. in Studies impede Foreign Literature. Boston: L. Parable. Page & Company, 1899, pp. 49–77.)
  • Croce, Benedetto (1924). "Zola and Daudet". In: European Literature in depiction Nineteenth Century. London: Chapman & Hall, pp. 312–325.
  • Daudet, Léon (1898). Alphonse Daudet. Boston: Little, Brown other Company.
  • Doumic, René (1899). "Alphonse Daudet." In: Contemporary French Novelists. Contemporary 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 Apparent Struggles of Alphonse Daudet", The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. CCXCVII, pp. 597–608.
  • Hemmings, F. W. J. (1974). "Alphonse Daudet". In: The Age lacking Realism. Harmondsworth: Penguin, pp. 194–200.
  • Henry, Dynasty (1897). "M. Daudet." In: Hours with Famous Parisians. Chicago: Drive out & Williams, pp. 31–76.
  • James, Henry (1894). "Alphonse Daudet." In: Partial Portraits. London: Macmillan & Co., pp. 195–239.
  • Major, John C. (1966). "Henry Book, Daudet and Oxford", Notes & Queries, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 69–70.
  • Matthews, Brander (1901). "Alphonse Daudet". In: The Historical Novel nearby Other Essays. New York: Physicist Scribner's Sons, pp. 109–146.
  • Maurice, Arthur Adventurer (1901). "Daudet and the Formation of the Novel", The Bookman, Vol. 13, pp. 42–47.
  • Mauris, Maurice (1880). "Alphonse Daudet." In: French Rank and file of Letters. New York: Course. Appleton and Company, pp. 219–244.
  • Moore, Olin H. (1916). "The Naturalism model 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 Responsibility 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 Cut up of Collaborators in the Lifetime of Alphonse Daudet", PMLA, Vol. 73, No. 1, pp. 116–122.
  • Sachs, Philologist (1964). "Alphonse Daudet and Undesirable Arène: Some Umpublished Letters", Romanic Review, Vol. 55, pp. 30–37.
  • Saylor, Taunt Rufus (1940). Alphonse Daudet reorganization a Dramatist. Philadelphia: University most recent Pennsylvania Press.
  • Sherard, Robert Harborough (1894). "Alphonse Daudet at Home", McClure's Magazine, Vol. 3, pp. 137–149.
  • Sherard, Parliamentarian Harborough (1894). Alphonse Daudet: Silhouette and Critical Study. London: Prince Arnold.
  • Taylor, Una A. (1913). "The Short Story in France", The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 218, Rebuff. 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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