The Rag-Picker of Paris (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Félix Pyat

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ISBN 10 : 1331708419 ISBN 13 : 9781331708414

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Rag-Picker of Paris



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Contrary to the nsual practice of writers who construct a drama from their novels, the author has constructed a novel from his drama. This is at least original. It is also easier and safer. The Duval soup is made more easily than the Liehig essence. A play is a work of coucentratiou; a hook, a work of elaboration. The largest and often the best part of a drama is not put upon the stage, but a hook has no behind the scenes. The volume gives the author more license, space, and time than the theatre, and, for good as well as evil, the author profits by it. Thus the drama of the Kag-P icker is necessarily only an act, an episode, in the life of Father Jean. The novel of the Rag-P icker shows his entire life. The drama is only a picture; the novel is a panorama. The author presents therefore a complete panorama of Paris during the past century, not, like romanticism and its son, naturalism, simply to astound, clutch, and pocket, but to teach, elevate, and moralize; not art for art and gold, but art for man and right, Socialistic art. What a man of my time has had an opportunity to see is unprecedented. All the sovereigns of the old world, kings, priests, and masters, giving place to the new sovereign, the People of Paris. Now, Paris has always brought luck to authors, whether dramatists or novelists. The two greatest popular successes of the epoch have been, in fact if not in right, as a novel, The Mysteries of Paris, and as a drama, The Rag-P icker of Paris. I f, then, hampered by the limits of the footlights, tlie aiitlior nevertheless has been able, by dint of condensation, to create a legendary type, he has had ground to hope that with full liberty of action he might make a novel as successful as the drama, according to the axiom that he who can do more can do less. Ft Lix Ft
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331708419
• ISBN 13: 9781331708414
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 329
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