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Carmen
Prosper Merimee (1803-1870) was an author by hobby, not necessity, being the son of two talented and highly successful artists. He was also a lawyer, a public official, a senator, a painter, an authority on Russian literature and a member of the French Academy. As a public official, M rim e travelled through France and Europe, from which he drew inspiration for his stories and novels. Quite indifferent about his literary popularity, M rim e claimed he wrote his 1845 novella, Carmen, because he was in need of a new pair of pants. The novella introduced the character of Carmen, one of the most unforgettable figures in literature and the basis of Bizet's 1875 opera. She is a beautiful, clever young gypsy, who embodies the not the French femme fatale, as Bizet portrays her, but the indifferent, independent spirit of the Roma. Carmen's allure draws the handsome young cavalryman, Don Jose, into a torturous love affair which can only end in tragedy.
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Pour une réception de l'\ambiguïté générique\ du roman autobiographique
This contribution will focus on the confirmation of the genre of the autobiographical novel and stakes a case for its possible reception. Since the theorisation of this literary genre by Philippe Gasparini (2004), and the identification of its main characteristic, namely its defining \"genre-related ambiguity\", theories abound yet continually fail to postulate as to its reception. Mixing fiction and reality, this genre challenges logic whilst also provoking intrigue. It is by tackling this unnatural amalgam that our argument stems. It is above all a question of valuing this ambiguity through an artistic interpretation, without claiming the practical validity of such a proposal. This is what we are claiming in the third reading pact of the genre, through the redefinition of the terms fiction and reality in the literary field.
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Madeline and the gypsies
Pepito, son of the Spanish ambassador, and Madeline, rescued by gypsies during a storm, travel and perform with their wandering friends until they again find Miss Clavel.
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René Boylesve lecteur de Proust et théoricien du roman
Cet article rend compte de l’évolution et des retournements ayant caractérisé les réflexions de René Boylesve sur l’art romanesque. Considérée dans sa totalité, la production critique du romancier révèle un parcours intellectuel original, bouleversé par deux événements qui ont marqué chacun à leur façon toute une génération d’écrivains : il y eut d’abord le choc provoqué par la Première Guerre mondiale et, dans un deuxième temps, la découverte non moins décisive du roman proustien. C’est cette évolution que nous nous proposons d’examiner ici à travers l’examen des observations théoriques que Boylesve a consignées dans différents types de textes, qu’il s’agisse de préfaces, nombreuses à être placées en tête de ses romans, d’articles critiques, de réponses à des enquêtes littéraires ou de pages de son journal personnel.
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The Cabinet of Wonders
Twelve-year-old Petra, accompanied by her magical tin spider, goes to Prague hoping to retrieve the enchanted eyes the Prince of Bohemia took from her father, and is aided in her quest by a Roma boy and his sister.
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Medina Hill
In the grimy London docklands of 1935, eleven-year-old Dominic Walker has stopped speaking. Life with an ailing mother, an unemployed father, and unanswered questions about the war that haunts his family lead him to retreat into a world of silence. Then Uncle Roo invites Dominic and his sister to spend the summer on the Cornish coast. In a boarding house full of eccentrics, the children discover a free-thinking, unstructured way of life unlike any they have known before. The idyllic holiday is threatened when a village uprising against a band of Travelers tests Dominic's friendship with a Gypsy girl. He decides to take a stand for justice and the victimized community, and learns what it truly means to have a voice.
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