French Literature of to Day a Study of the Principal Romancers And Essayists
French Literature of to Day a Study of the Principal Romancers And Essayists
Yetta Blaze De Bury
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It is imperative that the reader be persuaded that Brunetiere's indignation is not directed against the author of " Nana, " nor against Hector Malot, or any other Naturalist ; but that his vehement attacks are aimed at the filthy pic- tures Zola lingers over, and the newspaper gossip upon which Malot usually bases the plots of his plays, too frequently drawing them from the para- graphic reports of incidents of Parisian life. 1 1 "One of the reasons of the perisbableness of novels based upon tr...ansient incidents, " says Brunetiere in bis Study of the Naturalists, "is tbe ephemeral nature of the incidents they relate. Characters and not circumstances give dura- bility to novels. " 158 FERDINAND BRUNETIERE When the reader shall have formed an accurate idea of the delicacy of a mind which recognizes " the existence in the depth of souls of recesses where even the caress of the softest hand dare not venture ; " when he has a sure knowledge that in reading Brunetiere he is face to face with a na- ture which revolts against interested adulation, and whose whole activities, of pen and speech, are solely vowed to vindicate respect for the dignity of life, and, above all, to the elevation of the moral plane of the literature of fiction, he will be still farther from injustice to one of the most militant and eminent of our thinkers.
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