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The Odyssey of the Captain Fracasse

26 Thursday Oct 2017

Posted by la Clarina in Books, Stories

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Ernestina Grisi, Gervais Charpentier, Happy ending, Le Capitaine Fracasse, Théophile Gautier

Théophile Gautier first promised The Captain Fracasse to his readers in 1836, when he had yet to put pen to paper.

What he wanted to do, was a picaresque, baroque tale, in the way of Scarron and Scudery… only, he must not have wanted it too much, because in 1845, when he signed a publishing contract (and received a substantial advance), he forgot to mention that he still had to write a single word of the novel. Worse still, he kept procrastinating for years, while the publisher Buloz grew understandably nervous… Continue reading →

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