Word: bourget
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first lecture, on February 22, will be a discussion of the question whether or not the contemporary French novel presents a truthful picture of French society. The next six lectures, coming on February 14, 17, 19, 21, 24 and 26, will deal with the French novelists, Flaubert, Daudet. Maupassant, Bourget, Zola and Anatole France. The final lecture on February 28 will treat of the young French novelists. There will also be delivered eight additional lectures on subjects of present interest...
Whether or not Mr. Mitchell's success might have greater in a very difficult question, Mr. Paul Bourget goes far towards proving that the novel form is so intrinsically different from that of drama that a work once supremely well cast in one cannot be translated into the other. Undoubtedly Mr. Mitchell failed to produce a final literary masterpiece because his task was impossible. Technically the structure of his play is admirable and his selection and co-ordination of incidents is in the main wise and effective. Artistically he has made a number of good stage figures, who speak some...