Quatre Contes De Prosper Mérimée (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Quatre Contes De Prosper MériméeMerimee has taken his place in the history of French literature as discreetly as if he were alive. Nobody has attacked him, nobody has lauded him to the skies. But his fame is genuine and still growing. A classicist from personal taste, .he becomes one of the first realists by 'wayof reaction from romantic exaggeratiom Above all he is an artist. He excels in planning the just pro, portion of the partsofastory. Essential. And he conceals the machinewj narration so successfully detection, thereby giving. The impression ofuspontaneitykwhich isthe sine qua non Of any art. He is the foremost novelettist Of his time. Wver the franco-prussian war hastened his end. His death, which, in 1869, had been erroneously announced in all the newspapers of Europe, passed unnoticed amid the loud crash Of the downfall of the second empire.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.