Word: zola
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meantime, a series of interesting talks are being prepared by several of the professors. It is expected that early in the year four lectures - on Balzac, Daudet, de Maupassant, Zola - will be given before the conference under the direction of M. de Sumichrast and M. Brun, the new instructor in French, has generously consented to assist the society. The first regular meeting of the club will take place in No. 8 Brattle Hall, on Wednesday evening next...
...which were largely instrumental in shaping his character, and then he goes on to discuss the dominant ideas of Dumas's novels and plays, his types of women (the Preraphaelesque, the Bachante, and the Penelope), - some of which Mr. Fletcher thinks to be so bizarre that he says with Zola, "Where can Mr. Dumas have studied his women?" - and of his treatment of moral (and immoral) problems. He concludes with M. Bourget that Dumas fils is "A writer very little given to questions of everyday living, and that his work ought to be studied by the historian of French sensibilities...
...Hapgood contributes a thoughtful paper entitled "Zola's Attack on the Modern Drama." He shows development of the drama through the nine tenth century and the deterioration from art to "movement." His argument is strong; but his views are perhaps a little too gloomy...