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Daudet's Atmospheric Sensibility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Harry Kurz
Harry Kurz*
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Knox College
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The writer of the present paper, while engaged recently in editing Tartarin sur les Alpes, was particularly struck by the recurrence of rain, the continual drip from sky and mountainside that accompanies Tartarin in all his adventures. The dampness in the book seemed almost an obsession, as if Daudet had deliberately let loose floods that gushed and gurgled through his pages. Through what a wealth of humid detail, what sprinkles and splashes, wettings and soakings, the author delights in dragging his hero! Upon reflection, Daudet's other works somehow began to seem reminiscently full of weather. Pages resplendent with Midi sunshine mingled in memory with northern damp and fog. The writer was thereupon moved to re-examine the works of Daudet from this point of view. The results of that study, set forth in the following pages, seem to justify fully the impression with which it began; namely, that it is not so much as an author full of meridional sunlight that Daudet should be known, but rather as worker in moisture, a dabbler in damp, a keen observer of the vagaries of mist and rain.

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Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 44 , Issue 4 , December 1929 , pp. 1179 - 1200
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1929

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References

Note 1 in page 1179 The first number in the parenthesis indicates the title of the book according to the list at the end of the study.

List of Titles Referred to in the Foregoing Paper

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Note (4) in page 1199 1872 Tartarin de Tarascon, Flammarion-Select, Paris, s. d.

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Note (6) in page 1199 1874 Froment jeune et Risler aîné, Flammarion, Paris

Note (7) in page 1199 1876 Jack, Flammarion, Paris

Note (8) in page 1199 1878 Le nabab, Flammarion, Paris

Note (9) in page 1199 1879 Les rois en exil, Flammarion, Paris

Note (10) in page 1199 1881 Numa Roumestan, Nelson, Paris, s. d.

Note (11) in page 1199 1883 L'évangéliste, Flammarion, Paris

Note (12) in page 1199 1884 Tartarin sur les Alpes, Flammarion-Select, Paris, s. d.

Note (13) in page 1199 1887 Sapho, Flammarion, Paris

Note (14) in page 1199 1888 Trente ans de Paris, Flammarion, Paris

Note (15) in page 1199 1890 Port-Tarascon, Flammarion-Select, Paris, s. d.

Note (16) in page 1200 1892 La Belle Nivernaise, Flammarion, Paris

Note (17) in page 1200 1892 Rose et Ninette, Flammarion, Paris

Note (18) in page 1200 1893 Soutien de famille, Charpentier, Paris, 1898

Note (19) in page 1200 1894 Entre les frises et la rampe, Dentu, Paris

Note (20) in page 1200 1897 Le trésor d'Arlatan, Charpentier, Paris

Note (21) in page 1200 1888 Souvenirs d'un homme de lettres, Flammarion, Paris

Note (22) in page 1200 1897 Premier voyage, premier mensonge, Flammarion, Paris

Note (23) in page 1200 1897 La Fédor, Flammarion, Paris

Note (24) in page 1200 1899 Notes sur la vie, Charpentier, Paris

Note (25) in page 1200 Journal de famille et de guerre, Mme. Alphonse Daudet, Charpentier, Paris, 1920

Note (26) in page 1200 Mon frère et moi, souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse, Ernest Daudet, Plon, Paris, 1921

Note (27) in page 1200 Notes sur Alphonse Daudet, Léon Daudet, Rixheim, 1907

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Note (29) in page 1200 La langue d'Alphonse Daudet, Mary Burns, Thèse, Paris, 1916

Note (30) in page 1200 Alphonse Daudet, Léon Daudet, Paris, 1898

Note (31) in page 1200 Figures contemporaines, Bernard Lazare, Paris, 1895

Note (32) in page 1200 Lou Baile Anfos Daudet, Batisto Bonnet, Paris, s. d.

Note (33) in page 1200 Les idées morales et littéraires d'Alphonse Daudet, Gino A. Ratti, Thèse, Grenoble, 1911

Note (34) in page 1200 Revue de Paris, Tome II, 1898, p. 244

Note (35) in page 1200 L'amour chez Alphonse Daudet, A. Albalat, Paris, s. d.

Note (36) in page 1200 Journal des Goncourt, 9 vols., Paris, 1887-96

Note (37) in page 1200 La société française d'après l'œuvre d'Alphonse Daudet, Lorley Ada Ashleman, Thèse, Paris, 1910.