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A more important work under his own name, Chronique du règne de Charles IX, brought him to serious public attention in 1829. The Chronique is a historical novel, but it differs from the contemporary romantic ones in its impartial stance in recounting the Protestant and Catholic positions during the Wars of Religion in 16th-century France. Je descendais le dernier coteau du Canigou, et, bien que le soleil fût déjà couché, je distinguais dans la plaine les maisons de la petite ville dIlle, vers laquelle je me dirigeais. Prosper Mérimée was a French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and master of the short story whose works—Romantic in theme but Classical and controlled in style—were a renewal of Classicism in a … Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations
Like his friend Stendhal, he feared being mocked himself and never allowed himself to appear to take any of his writings seriously, posing usually as an amateur who happened for the moment to be writing a story.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1981584854/?tag=prabook0b-20(One of the earliest exponents of the short story, Prosper...)
The author's position remains distant, and Mérimée usually prefers the concrete to the abstract, giving a character life by a gesture or pose alone.
He was also among the first in France to appreciate Russian literature, translating Aleksandr Pushkin, Ivan Turgenev, and Nikolai Gogol. "Le Canigou--montagne dans les Pyrénées mentionnée au premier paragraphe. Colomba pousse alors avec un mélange damour fraternel et dardeur de vengeance son frère à un meurtre expiatoire, quelle aurait accompli elle-même si elle neût cru que lexécution de la vengeance appartenait à son frère comme chef de la famille.
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p.40: "Je descendais le dernier coteau du Canigou, et, bien que le soleil fût déjà couché . True to form, Mérimée refused to provide an ending and mockingly invited his readers to invent one for themselves. Le narrateur en revient avec son guide pour s'approcher de la ville d'Ille dans la vallée.
Excité par sa sur et par lopinion de ses compatriotes, Orso nen continue pas moins de répugner à la vendetta lorsquil est attaqué dans la montagne par les deux fils de lavocat Barricini.
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. En état de légitime défense, Orso les tue et accomplit la vengeance de Colomba. True to form, Mérimée refused to provide an ending and mockingly invited his readers to invent one for themselves.
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Like his friend Stendhal, he feared being mocked himself and never allowed himself to appear to take any of his writings seriously, posing usually as an amateur who happened for the moment to be writing a story.The French author Prosper Mérimée was known as a prose writer of the romantic period in France, important for his short stories, which mark the transition from romanticism toward the more objective works of the second half of the century.
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Pour aviver sa colère et sa haine contre ses ennemis, elle le mène à la place où son père a été tué puis, de retour à la maison, elle lui montre la chemise couverte de larges taches de sang de leur père et la lui jette sur ses genoux, avant de poser dessus les deux balles qui lont frappé.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1979855919/?tag=prabook0b-20(Colomba della Rebbia a vu périr son père assassiné par so...) La Vénus d'Ille (Annotated) (French Edition) and over 1.5 million other books are available for Amazon Kindle . Elle a un frère, Orso della Rebbia, lieutenant en demi-solde dans la garde impériale, qui doit bientôt revenir en Corse.