"ENL" Quotes from Famous Books
... attempts themes more closely allied to France and to his own time, choosing from a number of possible features the salient, the most striking feature, and though sometimes choosing themes that are strange and weird in themselves, avoiding sensational treatment of them. "Mateo Falcone", "L'Enlvement de la redoute", "Tamango" (1829), "La partie de trictrac", "Le vase trusque" (1830), and "La double mprise" (1833), are examples of realistic, not ... — Quatre contes de Prosper Mrime • F. C. L. Van Steenderen |