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Daudet, Alphonse

Born May 13, 1840, in Nimes; died Dec. 15, 1897, in Paris. French writer. Son of a manufacturer.

In 1858, Daudet published a collection of poems entitled The Lovers. A book of short stories and sketches about Provence entitled Letters From My Mill (1869) brought him literary fame. During the 1870’s, Daudet drew close to the naturalist school, headed by E. Zola (although he never regarded himself as an exponent of naturalism). In this period he wrote a number of novels permeated with sharp social criticism, including Fromont the Younger and Risler the Elder (1874), The Nabob (1877), The Kings in Exile (1879), Numa Roumestan (1881), and Sappho (1884), in which he presented a wide panorama of the mores of the aristocratic and parliamentary circles, the well-to-do bourgeoisie, artistic bohemians, the demimonde, and to some extent the workers’ milieu of that time. The baneful influence of religious fanaticism is shown in the novel The Evangelist (1883). In the novel The Immortal (1885), Daudet ridiculed sterile official scholarship. The novels The Little Boy (1868) and Jack (1876) portray the emergence of a personality as well as problems of upbringing and education. The trilogy Tartarin of Tarascon (1872), Tartarin in the Alps (1885), and Port-Tarascon (1890) is a keen satire of philistinism. Daudet also wrote several plays, among them The Woman From Aries (1872) and The Struggle for Life (1889), as well as a series of literary memoirs entitled Reminiscences of a Man of Letters (1888) and Thirty Years In Paris (1888).

WORKS

Oeuvres completes illustrées, vols. 1-20. Paris, 1929-31.
In Russian translation:.
Sobr. soch., vols. 1-7. Moscow, 1965.

REFERENCES

Istoriia frantsuzskoi literatury, vol. 3. Moscow, 1959.
Zola, E. “Al’fons Dode.” Sobr. soch., vol. 25. Moscow, 1966.
Puzikov, A. I. “Al’fons Dode i realisticheskie traditsii.” In Portrety frantsuzskikh pisatelei. Moscow, 1967.
Bornecque, J. H. Les Années d’apprentissage d’ A. Daudet. Paris, 1951.
Dobie, G. V. A. Daudet. London, 1949.
Sachs, M. The Career of A. Daudet. Cambridge (Mass.), 1965.

G. S. AVESSALOMOVA

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