French writer, b. Nîmes (Provence). Daudet made his mark with gentle naturalistic stories and novels portraying French life both in the provinces and in Paris.
French writer. One of the major novelists of the 19th century, he was the author of Madame Bovary (1857), Salammbô (1862), L'Education sentimentale/Sentimental Education (1869), and La Tentation de Saint Antoine/The Temptation of St Anthony (1874).
French novelist and short-story writer. Maupassant is a modern exemplar of traditional French psychological realism; he portrays his characters as unhappy victims of their greed, desire, or vanity but presents even the most sordid details of their lives without sermonizing.
Famous now for her unconventional lifestyle and her numerous love affairs, Sand was in her lifetime a literary lioness and one of the most influential women of her generation.
From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
French novelist; had a profound influence on Victor Hugo, whose Les Misérables has much in common with Sue's Les Mystères de Paris (1843).
French writer, born in Nantes. Jules Verne began his series of Voyages extraordinaires dans les mondes connus et inconnus (“Extraordinary Voyages to Known and Unknown Worlds”) in 1862.
From The Cambridge Guide to Theatre French Dramatist. At a time when naturalism was the dominant orthodoxy, Rostand's plays seem to look back to the romantic period in spirit.
The novel became the dominant form of Western literature in the 19th cent., which produced many works that are considered milestones in the development of the form.
From The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
The term realism denotes both a diversely practiced stylistic method and a heterogeneous period in literary history, during which poetry is at best of secondary importance.
In literature and the visual arts, a style that emphasizes the imagination, emotions, and creativity of the individual artist. Romanticism also refers specifically to late-18th- and early-19th-century European culture, as contrasted with 18th-century classicismenses and emotions over reason and intellect.
Originating in France in the 1880s, Symbolism developed after Romanticism and before surrealism in its exploration of the world of imaginative, dreamlike fantasy.
French poet and critic. His poetry, classical in form, introduced symbolism (see symbolists) by establishing symbolic correspondences among sensory images (e.g., colors, sounds, scents).
From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, the son of a consular officer, he went to France for his education, studying at both Pau and Tarbes, and going to Paris in 1867.
French poet. A leader of the Symbolist school, he became known as a poet's poet for his condensed, hermetic verse and unorthodox syntax, reaching for the ideal world of the intellect.
From The Columbia Encyclopedia
French poet. He gained some notice with the Parnassian poetry of Poèmes saturniens (1866) and Fêtes galantes (1869) and became a figure in the bohemian literary world of Paris.
French novelist. He is one of the great literary figures of the modern age.
French novelist, b. Paris. He was a professional writer, earning his living through journalism and his novels.