Captain Fracasse: Translated from the French; With a Critical Introd, By F. C. De Sumichrast, a Front, and Numerous Other Portraits With Descriptives Notes By Octave Uzanne (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Captain Fracasse: Translated From the French; With a Critical Introduction by F. C. De Sumichrast, of Harvard University

French again in his lighter moods. His wit is essen tially the esprit gaulois which, in recent years, has taken the place of charity as a covering for a multitude of sins. He can scarcely be termed a brilliant wit; rather is he one of those whose perception of the spirituel is some what commonplace; not, however, to the same extent as with a Homais or a Victor Hugo. His wit is not forced; indeed, it often is spontaneous enough, but it is conventional. His jokes and his allusions in the way of pleasantry are exactly of the kind that the genuine bourgeois loves, a fact that would have been most un pleasant to Gautier in his younger and more hot - headed days, though it none the less remains a fact.

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HfiOPHILE GAUTIER It is probable that to the average reader of French literature, whether in the original or in translations, the name of Theophile Gautier would not at once occur were he to recall the important members of the great Romanticist school that made the beginning of the last century so illustrious and interesting. Chateaubriand, the founder of the school, the creator and exponent of the melancholy hero who so long dominated both the novel and the drama; Lamartine, the sweet singer in the new Israel of letters; De Musset, the lightsome, daring, pert, and independent spoiled child of the band; De Vigny, the one serious thinker; Dumas the elder, the brilliant and dashing novelist, whose books still command, pace Rene Doumic and other modern critics, the close interest and excite the lively admiration of thousands upon thousands of readers; Sainte-B euve, the arbiter of taste and the champion of that wondrous sixteenth-century literature, until then so unjustly disdained and unread these are the names that first recur to the memory; and, above all, the name of the famous chief, of the standard-bearer, Victor Hugo, poet, novelist, dramatist, critic, philosopher in his own peculiar way the writer who, above and beyond all, made the school what it became and who linked its fortunes so closely with his own. Vol.
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