Paul Bourget (1852–1935)
Autor de The Disciple
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: From "Revue illustrée", 1887
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Obras de Paul Bourget
The Land of Promise 3 copias
Coeur pensif ne sait où il va 3 copias
La rechute 3 copias
Physiologie de l'amour moderne 3 copias
Nos actes nous suivent tome II 2 copias
Un drama en el gran mundo 2 copias
Le disciple, extraits 2 copias
L'envers du décor 2 copias
Pastels et eaux-fortes 2 copias
Antigone 2 copias
LE DEMON DE MIDI, TOME 1 2 copias
Nos actes nous suivent 2 copias
Conflits intimes 2 copias
Anomalies 1 copia
Le Disciple. Extraits. Avec Une Notice Biographique, Une Notice Historique Et Littéraire, Des Notes… (1967) 1 copia
Luxe des autres, Le 1 copia
Bourget Paul 1 copia
Φυσιολογία του σύγχρονου έρωτος 1 copia
El discípulo 1 copia
La dame qui a perdu son peintre. suivi de la seconde mort de broggi-mezzastris et une nuit de noël sous la… (1934) 1 copia
Kosmopolis (German Edition) 1 copia
Nemesi 1 copia
L'étape 1 copia
Un saint 1 copia
Sociologie et littérature 1 copia
Cruelle énigme ; Profils perdus 1 copia
Le démon de midi 1 copia
Fisiologia dell'amore moderno 1 copia
HI Inostri atti ci seguono 1 copia
Les detours du coeur 1 copia
La cárcel 1 copia
Ett felsteg 1 copia
Julm mõistatus : [romaan] 1 copia
Izabrana djela 1 copia
Deuxième amour 1 copia
La Terre Promise. tome 2 1 copia
A Saint 1 copia
Un corazón de mujer 1 copia
Recommencements 1 copia
Kinderherzen 1 copia
On ne voit pas les coeurs : Le soupc_on ; La ve_rite_ de_livre ; Trop de reme_des est un poison 1 copia
L'envers du décor : Le mensonge du père ; Les Moreau-Janville ; Tragédies secrètes ; Le déserteur 1 copia
Armastuse kuritegu 1 copia
Études anglaises 1 copia
Études et portraits 1 copia
Paul Bourget : Monique 1 copia
Un divorce (tome1) 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Bourget, Paul Charles Joseph
- Otros nombres
- BOURGET, Paul Charles Joseph
BOURGET, Paul - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1852-09-02
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1935-12-25
- Lugar de sepultura
- Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, Île-de-France, France
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- France
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Amiens, France
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Paris, France
- Lugares de residencia
- Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France
Paris, France - Educación
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand
École des Hautes Études - Ocupaciones
- novelist
critic - Relaciones
- James, Henry (friend)
- Organizaciones
- Académie française (1894)
- Premios y honores
- Légion d'Honneur (Officier )
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 115
- También por
- 3
- Miembros
- 389
- Popularidad
- #62,204
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 77
- Idiomas
- 6
- Favorito
- 1
Balzac and Zola had nothing to worry about long term, but Chatterton-Hill didn't know that. He had the bad timing to publish his article a few months before World War 1 began, which reminded everyone of the timeless benefits of pessimism and nihilism. Balzac and Zola were probably better writers than Chatterton-Hill's optimistic French grouping of course, but nevermind, it was interesting to take a look at a past century's literary dead end.
Chatterton-Hill dated the initial birth of this "turning" of French literature to Bourget's publication of Le Disciple in 1889, which would come to fruition a couple decades later. The Disciple is a philosophical novel that takes aim at positivism and scientific determinism. Sounds fun, no? It was actually a bestseller in France at the time. The set up is that we have an older philosopher, Adrien Sixte, who is well known for his writings arguing that mankind is a mere thinking machine, whose behaviors are absolutely determined by scientific laws, living in an amoral and godless world where society labels some behaviors virtues and others vices with no real merit to such labeling. With enough experimentation and information, the scientific laws determining how people behave could be discovered, with the same predictability and repeatability that one finds in a chemistry lab.
His writings influence a young scholar, Robert Greslou, who visits Sixte. Later Greslou is arrested for the murder of a young woman in a family he works for as a tutor, and he writes a lengthy "confession" to Sixte in which his application of Sixte's ideas to an experiment on human feelings and behavior are revealed to have terrible effects. This confession is a good deal more of telling than showing, thus it is hardly great literature, but it's not bad either, and it does have its philosophical interest. It also has aspects of an unfolding mystery, though Bourget would surely have found that sort of interest as a poor thing to take away from his novel.… (más)