"La Guzla" de Prosper Mérimée by Vojislav Mate Jovanović

"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 ... Read More easily "local color" could be manufactured. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Show Less

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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
Most Recently Updated	Jan 6, 2021
Copyright Status	Public domain in the USA.
Downloads	499 downloads in the last 30 days.
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