Contes cruels by comte de Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
"Contes cruels" by comte de Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam is a collection of 28 short stories published in 1883. These tales satirize the bourgeois materialism and narrow-mindedness of the era, contrasting superficial characters with spiritual idealists. Villiers employs dark irony and sometimes fantastic elements to critique his contemporaries' greed, foolishness, and obsessive rationalism. The stories share a common thread of cruelty, revealing human flaws without pretense while maintaining a tragic poetry that
reflects the author's aristocratic idealism and devotion to beauty. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Auguste, comte de, 1838-1889 |
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| Title | Contes cruels |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contes_cruels |
| Contents | Les Demoiselles De Bienfilatre -- Véra -- Vox Populi -- Deux augures -- L'affichage céleste -- Antonie -- La machine a gloire -- Duke of Portland -- Virginie et Paul -- Le convive des dernières fêtes -- A s'y méprendre -- Impatience de la foule -- Le secret de l'ancienne musique -- Sentimentalisme -- Le plus beau diner du monde -- Le désir d'être un homme -- Fleurs de ténèbres -- L'appareil pour l'analyse chimique du dernier soupir -- Les brigands -- La reine Ysabeau -- Sombre récit, conteur plus sombre -- L'intersigne -- L'inconnue -- Maryelle -- Le traitement du docteur Tristan -- Conte d'amour -- Souvenirs occultes -- L'Annonciateur (Épilogue). |
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| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 72.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Short stories, French |
| Subject | French fiction -- 19th century |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 62874 |
| Release Date | Aug 7, 2020 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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