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Tag: French literature

274. (Charles Baudelaire)

All poetry is nature poetry—imagining what it is in the nature of things to do and become; nature is the … More

Baudelaire, French literature, Karl Barth, Modernity, Poetry

250. (Jean Racine)

I write as a novice, an initiate into Racine’s imaginative world, and I enter with just enough French to feel … More

decorum, English Literature, French literature, Racine, Shakespeare

247. (Stendhal)

  Stendhal is exhausting and bracing because his energy is relentless and directed relentlessly to one end: the refusal of … More

French literature, narration, Realism, Stendhal, the novel

75. (Émile Zola)

Here is the second part of the Zola post; undoubtedly shorter, as the fire of fresh reading has sputtered. But … More

French literature, Germinal, nineteenth-century French literature, Realism, the novel, Zola

74. (Émile Zola)

In the spirit of a reading journal, here’s the first of a two-part attempt to say something coherent about Zola’s … More

Auerbach, Classics, epic, French literature, George Eliot, Homer, nineteenth-century literature, Realism, the novel, Virgil, Zola
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