British vs French 19thc century lit rumble

[BeBMan]

Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (pronounced ['gø tə]) (August 28, 1749 – March 22, 1832) was a German writer, humanist, scientist, philosopher, and he conducted his civic services as a cabinet minister of Weimar. Considered a brilliant writer, Goethe was one of the paramount figures of German literature and European Neo-classicism and Romanticism in the late 18th and early 19th century. Goethe was the author of Faust and Theory of Colours and inspired Darwin with his independent discovery of the human premaxilla jaw bones and focus on evolution. His influence spread across Europe, and for the next century his works were a primary source of inspiration in music, drama and poetry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by nostromo


Since you obviously don't know Balzac very well, I upgraded my quote above. He's a great author, in the same league as Flaubert.

I knew hes a major author, just havent read that much of him.

'"That man wants only one thing."
"What?"
"Its in BALZAC"
"Pardon me, but I never read it"
"And neither has anyone else in this town"

from The Music Man

[Ramo]

Any other century, I'd be inclined to go with the Brits, but the 19th is tough (when Russia severely pwns everyone else).

Jules Verne

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne

[Nostromo]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


Hit! A very palpable hit!

who are bouvard and pechuchet?

A book by Flaubert. Its basically a book about human stupidity.

Bouvard et Pécuchet details the adventures of two Parisian copy-clerks, François Denys Bartholomée Bouvard and Juste Romain Cyrille Pécuchet, of the same age and nearly identical temperment. They meet one hot summer day by the canal Saint-Martin and form an instant, symbiotic friendship, exchanging the commonest and the most banal platitudes. When Bouvard inherits a sizable fortune, the two decide to move to the countryside to the town of Chavignolles in the Norman countryside, 100 miles west of Rouen, to live in quiet contemplation. What ensues is their search to find intellectual preoccupation fitting for their narrow minds as they rapidly cycle through almost every intellectual discpline known to man.

In the course of their odyssey, Flaubert skewers his contemporaries by exposing the weaknesses and frailty of everything Bouvard and Pécuchet set their minds on.

Some scholars assert that Flaubert intended that Bouvard and Pécuchet gain transcendent insight into the nature of human knowledge, and set about writing the also unpublished Dictionary of Received Ideas to mock their contemporaries. As the work is unfinished, this will never be anything more than an assertion).

[Spiffor]

Don't hit them too much too early Nostromo, or they might land all their blows once we exhaust ourselves (on page 250 of the thread or so), and win out of sheer tactics by mentioning their 12 authors when we can't respond anymore

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by BeBro
Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (pronounced ['gø tə]) (August 28, 1749 – March 22, 1832) was a German writer, humanist, scientist, philosopher, and he conducted his civic services as a cabinet minister of Weimar. Considered a brilliant writer, Goethe was one of the paramount figures of German literature and European Neo-classicism and Romanticism in the late 18th and early 19th century. Goethe was the author of Faust and Theory of Colours and inspired Darwin with his independent discovery of the human premaxilla jaw bones and focus on evolution. His influence spread across Europe, and for the next century his works were a primary source of inspiration in music, drama and poetry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe

Er. em, (cough).

Bebro, when two gangs rumble, they DONT want another gang butting in. Feel free to mention French or British authors, though.

[lord of the mark]

Ok, this is getting to one sided

To stick to novelists

Charlotte Bronte, author of Jane Eyre.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


Er. em, (cough).

Bebro, when two gangs rumble, they DONT want another gang butting in. Feel free to mention French or British authors, though.

Ok, I'll stop - but not without protesting against the discrimination here /joke

[Sandman]

Abraham 'Bram' Stoker

Thank you again, Wikipedia

[Provost Harrison]

I raise you Charles Dickens. The good thing about Charles Dickens is there's none of that pretentious crap

[Sandman]

None of his books have ever been out of print, either.

[Spiffor]

Speaking about pretentious crap, here's Alfred de Musset

Eat that!

Alfred Louis Charles de Musset, (December 11, 1810 – May 2, 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.

De Musset was born in Paris and died there as well.

De Musset was an important figure in the Romantic literary movement. He trained in both law and medicine, but he turned to literature after finding a distaste for dissections. He is remembered mainly for his poetic works.

Works:

* Poetry
Comtes d'Espagne et d'Italie (1830)
Premières poésies
Poésies nouvelles (includes Les Nuits)

* Plays
On ne badine pas avec l'amour
Barberine
Un Caprice
Les Caprices de Marianne
Il faut qu'une porte soit ouverte ou fermé
Lorenzaccio

* Novel
La Confession d'un enfant du siècle (autobiographical)

[Nostromo]

Don't hit them too much too early Nostromo, or they might land all their blows once we exhaust ourselves (on page 250 of the thread or so), and win out of sheer tactics by mentioning their 12 authors when we can't respond anymore

You, Sir, are a fine tactician!

[lord of the mark]

well after a Nostromo and Spiff took initial command of the ground, with a surprise assist from Ramo (Verne- what a great mention - as surprising as Doyle - and lovely global pop culture refs in "back to the future") the brits have come back, with several authors, including heavy hitter Dickens.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Speaking about pretentious crap, here's Alfred de Musset

Eat that!

first one mentioned i havent heard of.