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In Hebrew. 166, (2) pages. 192 x 138 mm. Original front wrapper bound in modern cardboard boards. Illustrated. This was the first of his longer books, Le Petit Chose (1868). It is, in the main, the story of his own earlier years told with much grace and pathos. Alphonse Daudet was a novelist, short story writer, playwright, and poet of the literary movement of Naturalism. In 1856 he left Lyon, where he had most of schooling, and became a schoolteacher at Alès, Gard, in the south of France. He found the job intolerable and on 1 November 1857 he abandoned teaching and moved in with his brother, who was a journalist in Paris. Alphonse took to writing, and his poems were collected into a small volume, Les Amoureuses (1858), which met with a fair reception. He obtained employment on Le Figaro, then under Cartier de Villemessant's energetic editorship, wrote two or three plays, and began to be recognized in literary communities as possessing distinction and promise. Morny, Napoleon III's all-powerful minister, appointed him to be one of his secretaries, a post which he held till Morny's death in 1865. In 1866, Daudet's Lettres de mon moulin (Letters from My Windmill), written in Clamart, near Paris, and alluding to a windmill in Fontvieille, Provence, won the attention of many readers. The first of his longer books, Le Petit Chose (1868), did not, however, produce popular sensation. It is the story of his own earlier years told with much grace and pathos. 1872 brought the famous Aventures prodigieuses de Tartarin de Tarascon, and the three-act play L'Arlésienne. But Fromont jeune et Risler aîné (1874) took the world by storm. It struck a note, not new in English literature, but comparatively new in French. His creativeness resulted in characters that were real and also typical. Jack, a novel about an illegitimate child, a martyr to his mother's selfishness, which followed in 1876, served only to deepen the same impression. Henceforward his career was that of a successful man of letters, mainly spent writing novels: Le Nabab (1877), Les Rois en exil (1879), Numa Roumestan (1881), Sapho (1884), L'Immortel (1888), and writing for the stage: reminiscing in Trente ans de Paris (1887) and Souvenirs d'un homme de lettres (1888). Daudet also wrote for children, including La Belle Nivernaise, the story of an old boat and her crew. In 1867 Daudet married Julia Allard, author of Impressions de nature et d'art published in 1879 (of which L'Enfance d'une Parisienne, later published as a stand-alone in 1883, constitutes the first part, the third part being a compilation of her literary studies, formerly written for the "Journal Officiel" under the pseudonym "Karl Steen"). Daudet, who lost his virginity at age 12, bedded his friends' mistresses throughout his marriage and managed to contract syphilis, which eventually paralyzed him. There is a good deal of autobiographical detail in Daudet's Trente ans de Paris and Souvenirs d'un homme de lettres, and also scattered in his other books. The references to him in the Journal des Goncourt are numerous. Daudet was a monarchist, a fervent opponent of the French Republic, and an Anti Semite, though less notoriously anti Jewish than his son Léon. The main character of Le Nabab was inspired by a Jewish politician who was elected as a deputy for Nîmes. Daudet campaigned against him and lost. Daudet counted many literary figures amongst his friends, including Edouard Drumont, who founded the Antisemitic League of France and founded and edited the anti-Semitic newspaper La Libre Parole. Daudet also exchanged anti-Semitic correspondence with Richard Wagner. It has been argued that Daudet deliberately exaggerated his links to Provence to further his literary career and social success (following Frederic Mistral's success), including lying to his future wife about his "Provençal" roots. . .
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