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Title: The literary digest
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York : Funk & Wagnalls (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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kProvensal element in him, he is, in his completeness, a product Vol. XVI., No. 1) THE LITERARY DIGEST. 13 of the great French citj. He has the nervous tension, the intel-lectual eagerness, the quick and exaggerated sensibility, thecomplicated, sophisticated judgment, which the friction, the con-tagion, the emulation, the whole spectacle, at once exciting anddepressing, of our civilization a.t its highest, produces in suscepti-ble natures. There are tears in his laughter, and there is a strainof laughter in his tears ; and in both there is a note of music. Daudets obligation to Dickens has been the subject o( muchcomment. Daudet denied that he was influenced by the Englishnovelist, and, indeed, fought a harmless duel over the accusation.Most of his critics, however, find a resemblance, altho few ofthem go so far as to call it imitation. Daudet himself said ofthis: I feel in my heart Dickenss love for the lowly, for the un-happy childhood of little ones reared in the squalor and misery
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ALPHONSE D.^UDET. of a great city ; I too had a heartrending struggle for existence,and earned my bread before I was sixteen ; therein lies, I fancy,our greatest resemblance. The Boston Transcript says ; That he was influenced by Dickens can not be denied. ... Infact, no denials are of any avail in the face of many pages ofFromont Jeune et Risler Ain6. where one sees the youngerwriter following the older, not blindly, but very clearly, tho hemakes no sacrifice of his originality. Daudet was not a member of the French Academy, altho oftenspoken of as a candidate. The Springfield Republican says thathe refused to become a candidate for a chair in the Academy.Augustin Filon says, however, that the Academy repulsed him.His feeling toward the Academy is not in doubt, for in Llm-mortel he satirized that dignified body so cuttingly that all hischances of becoming an Immortal were destroyed. The Brook-lyn Eagle says of this : There is a saying in Paris that there is always a forty-firstmember

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