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Beginnings and Ends

04 Thursday Feb 2021

Posted by la Clarina in Books, Scribbling

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Captain Fracasse, endings, R. L. Stevenson, Théophile Gautier, Weir of Hermiston

Would you object very much to some more slight gloominess? Or perhaps it won’t be so terribly gloomy by the time we’re done – but let us talk of endings and beginnings, and Stevenson. I’ve always liked this thing that Stevenson wrote in a letter written from Samoa to J.M. Barrie:

If you are going tho make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

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The Odyssey of the Captain Fracasse

26 Thursday Oct 2017

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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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