...Jean David Walter T. Secor. New York: King's Crown Press, Columbia University, 1948. Pp. xi + 256. $3.00. Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 REVIEWS Paul Bourget attd the Nouvelle. Par WALTERT. SECOR.New York: King’s Crown Press...

... the modernity of Baudelaire until Bourget’s essay in 1881 acknowledged the poet as worthy of serious study. In the seventies Baudelaire appeared a decadent poet to most comzaisseurs of poetry. Pontniartin’s remarks are undoubtedly typical, written as they are by a critic who held an “official...

...Boyd G. Carter Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 ALPHONSE DAUDET AND DARWINISM By BOYDG. CARTER The influence of Taine and Renan on their contemporaries and the reaction of writers like Bourget and Brunetiere against...

...Bernice Udick Gonzalez Martinez Enrique. Editorial Stylo, Mexico, 1948. Pp. 229. 5 pesos. Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 REVIEWS Paul Bourget attd the Nouvelle. Par WALTERT. SECOR.New York: King’s Crown Press, Columbia University...

... field: the portrayal of high society. Bourget, then at the height of his fame as its novelist, is held to be responsible for this change of atmosphere. Mr. Steeg- muller thinks that “probably Bourget played a role in this. Convinced himself of the superiority of high life as literary...

... an abstract definition borrowed from Bourget, Nietzsche, and Havelock Ellis. The latter provides the shortest formula: “The social organism enters the state of decadence as soon as the individual life of the parts is no longer subordinate to the whole.” The aesthetic...

... that Bourget seems to be Mr. Randall’s psy- chologist par excellence, so perhaps it is idle to quarrel about defi- nitions. So much for classification. Swann is one of the subtle and complex characters of the Proustian cycle and would admit rather intensive study in the mat- ter of Jewish traits...

... to Stature,” he puts studies of Vallcs, Bourget, Bmile Zola and Anatole France, Martin du Gard (largely limited to Jean Barois), and, surprisingly, Louis Guilloux-whose character Cripure, Brombert feels, justifies a place for Guilloux in distinguished company. In the second part, entitled...

... of sincerity which venal love may boast of, hold special charm for readers and writers. Indeed, they appear naively idyllic as compared with the Proustian inferno or with the characters of Paul Bourget and Edith Wharton, and we wish they had attracted the author of The Golden Bowl. Carco did...

... of thinking, Laporte, using an illustration reminiscent of Bourget’s Le Disciple, created an imaginary student of medicine, one of the Rougon-Macquart line, brought into court for the murder of a laundry woman. His defense being that he had merely followed the doctrines of Zola’s books and could...

... : Philosophical Library, 1948. Pp. 63. $2.75. Secor, Walter Todd. Paul Bourget and the Nouvelle. New York: King’s Crown Press, 1948. Pp. xi 4- 256. $3.00. GERMAN Novalis. Hymns to the Night. Translated by Mabel Cotterell. With an Intro- duction...

... of the modern German writer. Instead of explaining the historical causes of “decadence,” Eickhorst supplies an abstract definition borrowed from Bourget, Nietzsche, and Havelock Ellis. The latter provides the shortest formula: “The social organism enters the state of decadence as soon...

... matured and found his personal set of values with few intimates (Bourget, Kahn, Charles Henry, and later the musi- cian ThCophile Ysaye). Away from Paris, having points of contact with but not assimilable to either dtcadents or symbolistes, he developed his own poetic tools...

... ancestor of such studies around 1800, and Moreau de Tours, Prosper Lucas, and others around 1850-60, to be utilized to ridiculous ends by Zola and Huys- mans and by the half-sick men of the fin de &Ze era who endeavored to cure themselves of the poison of decadentism: Bourget was one...

.... He is the least accessible to non-French readers, apparently, among the prose writers of his age, in his blend of sumptuous egocentricity and of decorative prose, somewhat as Chateaubriand, whom Barrks recalls, has failed to receive his due from Anglo-Saxon scholars. Paul Bourget...

... and disturbing tale, “Le dessous des cartes dans une partie de whist.” In a story by Paul Bourget, baccarat’s status as a game of almost pure chance occasions “a gaping tear” (172) in the main character’s sense of himself as a purposive, ethical individual. The final chapter, “Dreaming the Casino...

... for the others, a repository of guessed-at and only hypothetical forces” (151) — becomes the key to understanding the meaning and the narrative technique of Jules Bar- bey d’Aurevilly’s elliptical and disturbing tale, “Le dessous des cartes dans une partie de whist.” In a story by Paul Bourget, baccarat’s...

... for the others, a repository of guessed-at and only hypothetical forces” (151) — becomes the key to understanding the meaning and the narrative technique of Jules Bar- bey d’Aurevilly’s elliptical and disturbing tale, “Le dessous des cartes dans une partie de whist.” In a story by Paul Bourget, baccarat’s...

...- bey d’Aurevilly’s elliptical and disturbing tale, “Le dessous des cartes dans une partie de whist.” In a story by Paul Bourget, baccarat’s status as a game of almost pure chance occasions “a gaping tear” (172) in the main character’s sense of himself as a purposive, ethical individual...

... intimates (Bourget, Kahn, Charles Henry, and later the musi- cian ThCophile Ysaye). Away from Paris, having points of contact with but not assimilable to either dtcadents or symbolistes, he developed his own poetic tools. ...