"La Guzla" de Prosper Mérimée by Vojislav Mate Jovanović
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"La Guzla" de Prosper Mérimée by Vojislav Mate Jovanović is a critical study published in 1911 examining Prosper Mérimée's 1827 literary hoax. Mérimée presented fabricated Balkan folk ballads as authentic translations, complete with invented commentaries and a fictional narrator. The romantic poems featured werewolves, phantoms, and vampires, satirizing the era's exaggerated exotic storytelling. Though commercially unsuccessful, the work fooled major literary figures including Pushkin and Goethe, establishing Mérimée's reputation while exposing how
easily "local color" could be manufactured. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Jovanović, Vojislav Mate, 1884-1968 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 20008839 |
| Title | "La Guzla" de Prosper Mérimée |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Guzla |
| Contents | 1. ptie. Origines de "La guzla": Les Illyriens dans la littérature française avant "La guzla." La ballade populaire avant "La guzla." Prosper Mérimée avant "La guzla" -- 2. ptie. Les sources de "La guzla": Nodier, Fauriel, Chaumette-Desfossés, "L'orphelin de la Chine." Fortis, "La divine comédie", quelques autres sources. Le merveilleux dans "La guzla." "La ballade de l'épouse d'Asan-Aga." -- 3. ptie. La fortune de "La guzla": "La guzla" en France. "La guzla" en Allemagne. "La guzla" en Angleterre. "La guzla" dans les pays slaves. Appendice. |
| Credits | Produced by Dejan Ajdacic, Eric Vautier and the Online Distributed Proofreaders Europe at dp.rastko.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 67.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Comparative literature |
| Subject | Literary forgeries and mystifications |
| Subject | Vampires |
| Subject | Mérimée, Prosper, 1803-1870. La guzla |
| Subject | Ballads, Serbian |
| Subject | Songs, Serbian |
| Subject | Folk songs |
| Subject | Romanticism -- France |
| Subject | Evil eye |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 31474 |
| Release Date | Mar 2, 2010 |
| Last Update | Jan 6, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 532 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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