Quel est le style d’écriture de Mérimée ?
L’œuvre littéraire de Prosper Mérimée relève d’« une esthétique du peu », son écriture se caractérisant par la rapidité et l’absence de développements, qui créent une narration efficace et un réalisme fonctionnel adaptés au genre de la nouvelle.
Où vivait Prosper Mérimée ?
Paris
Prosper Mérimée/Lieux de résidence
Prosper Mérimée, né le 28 septembre 1803 à Paris et mort le 23 septembre 1870 à Cannes, est un écrivain, historien et archéologue français.
Qui sont les amis de Prosper Mérimée ?
En 1822, Mérimée rencontre de grands auteurs dans un salon littéraire, tels qu’Alfred de Musset, Victor Hugo et Stendhal, qui devient son meilleur ami. Mérimée devient en 1834 inspecteur général des monuments historiques. Cette fonction le conduit à effectuer de nombreux voyages à travers la France.
How did Mérimée become famous?
- A book of the poems was not a commercial success, selling only a dozen copies, but the journals and press made Mérimée an important literary figure. From then on Mérimée’s stories and articles were regularly published by the two leading literary magazines of Paris, the Revue des deux Mondes and the Revue de Paris.
Who was Prosper Mérimée?
- Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870) was an author by hobby, not necessity, being the son of two talented and highly successful artists. He was also a lawyer, a public official, a senator, a painter, an authority on Russian literature and a member of the French Academy.
What did Jean Baptiste Mérimée study?
- Of a cultured, middle-class Norman background, Mérimée first studied law but was more devoted to learning the Greek, Spanish, English, and Russian languages and their literatures. At 19 he wrote his first play, Cromwell (1822); his close friend the novelist Stendhal encouraged him in this literary direction.
What was the relationship between Goethe and Mérimée?
- Mérimée was not so gracious toward Goethe; he called Goethe’s own work « a combination of genius and German naïveté ». King Louis XVIII died in 1824, and the regime of the new King, Charles X, was much more authoritarian and reactionary. Mérimée and his friends became part of the liberal opposition to the regime.
