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Journal Article
On Michael Fried and Literary Impressionism
2020
Overview
Or perhaps literary impressionism describes the attempt to capture in densely descriptive prose the unique settings characteristic of Impressionist canvases, as in the mock-pastoral romance of Maupassants A Day in the Country, which evokes the vulgar suburban gaiety of a Renoir boating party, complete with a drunken dejeuner sur ľherbe and randy canotiers (Renoirs son, Jean, directed a film adaptation of the story in 1936 starring Sylvia Rataille that deliberately pays homage to his fathers paintings). The scholar Jesse Matz, whose work has been influential in defining the term and making it a fruitful subject of critical discussion, writes that literary impressionism \"is still a dominant style of mainstream literary fiction\" and cites Zadie Smith's NW as a work so completely impressionist \"that it might seem to be a throwback.\" The first usage of the term is often credited to the literary critic Ferdinand Brunetiere, who defined literary impressionism in an 1879 review of a novel by Alphonse Daudet as \"a systematic transposition of the means of expression of one art, which is the art of painting, into the domain of another art, which is the art of writing.\" Pound's dictate echoed the more foreboding language of the critic Max Nordau, who felt that the intermixture of the art of the painter and the art of the poet made impressionism in literature the height of fin de siede decadence, \"an example of that atavism which we have noticed as the most distinctive feature in the mental life of degenerates.\"
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Rutgers University
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