Word: novelist
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Capus started his literary career as a novelist, and published many little works full of irony, such as "Qui Perd Gagne," "Faux Depart," and "Annees d'Aventure." His "Brignol et sa Fille," a study of the French business man, has been acted on the vaudeville stage. "La Bouse et La Vie," which is now having a great success at the "Gymnase," is a clever satire on the new and luxurious French prisons...
...Stephen Crane for the field of battle. On the whole the short story offers greater opportunities for a young writer than the novel. In the short story one may be didactic and yet not wearisome, and then the short story can pose problems and leave them unanswered. Now the novelists George Sand Dickens and Thackeray not only stated problems, but also answered them. The modern method of the short story, however, is to treat the matter in such an ambiguous manner, that two opposing answers may be possible. Again, a short story writer always asks his readers to take...
...also many qualities that the short story does not demand. To write one does not require a sustained imagination, nor broadness and sanity in point of view. We do not require that the short story writer should have a philosophy of life or be a particularly deep thinker. The novelist deals with a whole, but the short story writer with a fragment, a mere sketch...
...Vanity Fair" was Thackeray's first great success. In truthful depiction and now in satire he had succeeded; he was then to enter, as a novelist, the third stage of his literary development. "Fun is good, truth is better, and love is best of all" he once wrote, and he was about to take up that kind of writing which mirrors the moral ideals of the world, the law of which is love. If "Vanity Fair" was Thackeray's most powerful book, "Henry Esmond" was of all his works the best and noblest. Its charm does...
...reckoned among the best in Europe, and even among the best French poets. The three Belgians who best represent the ideal of this poetry are closely associated with the Symbolistic School. They are: Maurice Maeterlinck, Georges Rodembach, and Emile Verhaeven. Besides these three, there should be mentioned the celebrated novelist, Camille Lemonnier, who has written, in addition to many excellent novels, the history of symbolism in Belgium...