Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature volume 5
Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature volume 5
Brandes Georg Morris Cohen
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" He therefore transforms himself into an inhabitant of the most dissimilar countries, in all different stages of civilisation. He is in imagination a Moor, a negro, a South American, an Illyrian, a gipsy, a Cossack. But all ^ Guizot : Shakespeare et son tenths, 294. 267 268 THE ROMANTIC SCHOOL IN FRANCE things remote and foreign do not possess an equal degree of attraction for him. Indeed he is actually repelled by culture and polish. As Th^ophile Gautier preferred to visit each country at the... season of year when its climate is most characteristic — Africa in summer, Russia in winter — so M^rim^e preferred imaginary excursions to the regions whose inhabitants have the least regard for human life, the strongest passions, the wildest and most determined characters, and the most violent original prejudices. He does not confine himself to the present. He is keenly interested in the barbarities of the peasant wars of the Middle Ages ; he conjures up the age of Charles IX. , and writes a masterly account of the massacre of St.
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