The Minor French Novelists
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781419172892
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; European - French
First sentence: SAINTE-BEUVE, whose literary judgments are always worth noting, whether they strike us as correct or not, has somewhere a happy sentence about Charles de Bernard-about "that ease and irresponsible grace which was the gift of this first of Balzac's pupils-of him who might have been superior to the master if a pupil ever was so, and especially if he had done more-if, in short, he had live."