The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (Classic Reprint), by Anatole France
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Excerpt from The Crime of Sylvestre BonnardThat excellent French critic, Jules Lemaitre, observes: "Let us love the books which please us and cease to trouble ourselves about classifications and schools of literature." This generous exhortation seems especially appropriate in the case of Anatole France. The author of "Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard" is not classifiable, - though it would be difficult to name any other modern French writer by whom the finer emotions have been touched with equal delicacy and sympathetic exquisiteness.If by Realism we mean Truth, which alone gives value to any study of human nature, we have in Anatole France a very dainty realist: - if by Romanticism we understand that unconscious tendency of the artist to elevate truth itself beyond the range of the familiar, and into the emotional realm of aspiration, then Anatole France is at times a romantic. And, nevertheless, as a literary figure he stands alone; neither by his distinctly Parisian refinement of method, nor yet by any definite characteristic of style, can he be successfully attached to any special group of writers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (Classic Reprint), by Anatole France- Published on: 2015-09-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .69" w x 5.98" l, .97 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 328 pages
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“The author of “Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard” is not classif-able, — though it would be difficult to name any other modern French writer by whom the finer emotions have been touched with equal delicacy and sumpathetic exquisiteness.” —Lafcadio Hearn, from the introduction
Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: French
About the Author Anatole France (pseudonym of Jacques Anatol Thibault, 1844- 1924) was the most prominent French man of letters of his time. France's style was precise, elegant, gentle, ironic, and humorous. He was elected to the French Academy, and in 1921 was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. Some of his other works include The Aspirations of Jean Servien, The Revolt of the Angels, and Penguin Island.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. good By Maria Pedro this book i think should be a best seller - it just made you want to read on and on - i think that i would read it again - i am going to keep it on my kindle for keep sake - it was enjoyable and intriguing - what a nice book - everyone should read it
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A Life in Books By Mr. D. James Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre BonnardIn his time Anatole France (1844-1924) was regarded as a great man of letters. He was a poet, journalist and novelist, the son of a bookstore owner who became a member of the Académie Française and was ultimately awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Although he must have appeared to his contemporaries to be a revolutionary writer, a scourge of the Church and a witty satirist, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard is a somewhat plodding read today. True, I have only read a translation of the work of this so-called master-stylist, a first person narrative of the eponymous hero that frequently dragged.The main trouble for me is that Bonnard, a fusty old scholar with an enquiring mind and wide sympathies, doesn't actually do anything until the end of the story when he adopts a young girl, Jeanne, rescuing her from an oppressive scholastic regime. Not that our hero (or anti-hero) is unsympathetic. He is earnest and meticulous in his pursuit of ancient texts, having devoted his life to recovering works that nobody but he is ever likely to read. He sees life, as Johnson said of Milton, `through the spectacles of books.' To Bonnard's credit, he is only too aware of being buried in the past: "Bonnard," I said to myself, "Thou knowest how to decipher old texts; but thou dost not know how to read the Book of Life." The archaic language is maintained throughout, serving to underline the narrator's distance from what we might call `the real world.'The out-of-touch bibliophile is constantly being orientated to practical issues by his dominatrix of a housekeeper, Therese. `On re-entering my lodgings I had to endure the sharpest remonstrances from Therese, who said she had given up trying to understand my new way of living.' His new way of living (his Crime in fact) entails living with `the child', Jeanne, who becomes his ward and indeed spiritual inamorata, although he ultimately but reluctantly cedes her to Gelis, a younger man - shades of Esther Summerson, perhaps?But even the old man's happy relationship with the rescued Jeanne is seen by the scholar a re-enactment of the Antigone situation. Thus when Bonnard reads the Chorus of Antigone to Jeanne, the tragic heroine's face appears before him `in all its passionless purity.' He tells his ward `I am reading, Mademoiselle - I am reading that Antigone, having buried the blind old man, wove a fair tapestry embroidered with images in the likeness of laughing faces.' The realistic Gelis who overhears this protests that this ending is not in the text. No, Bonnard agrees, `It is a scholium' - a marginal note, but adds Gelis `Unpublished.' Thus does the wish-fulfilment of life in the end triumph over the reality of textual scholarship.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Has its moments By wiredweird After reading France's Thais and especially his Penguin Island, I had highest hopes for more of his gentle satire and piercing wit. Although a few examples of them appeared, generally in the narrator's self-deprecating moments, Bonnard never really engaged me. Too many premises about society and social niceties have changed, and not much actually happens - it added up to very little for me to hold onto, and no easy connection to that little.I'll come back to other works by France, but might not be so persistent in reading each one to the end.-- wiredweird
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