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22 mai 2013
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulg.933
- isbn: 9782251661919
- eisbn: 9782821828766
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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roman romantisme (littérature) naturalisme (littérature) Paris littérature américaine American literature naturalism (literature) Paris novel romantism (literature) Literature LIT004020 DSBSujets proches
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Jeanne Delbaere-Garant, « The American (1877). Life and Form », Presses universitaires de Liège, ID : 10.4000/books.pulg.933
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In life without art you can find your account; but art without life is a poor affair. The American forms with Madame de Mauves a diptych illustrating the failure of Franco-American personal relationships but in the novel the ambiguity has disappeared and the balance has been broken. Except for Mr. Babcock, who remains undeveloped, and for the Tristrams who, like Mrs. Draper in the preceding tale, are mere links between the two worlds, Newman is the only American in the novel, but he is so hea...