Alphonse Daudet (Daudet Alphonse)

(1840-1897)
Born May 13, 1840 in Nцўmes (Provence). Since his early years he worked as a schoolteacher. On this difficult period and to move seventeen years in Paris tells the autobiographical novel Little (Le Petit Chose, 1868).

Of the most famous pieces Dode - staged his own story Arlezianka (L'Arlsienne, 1872), the success of many obliged music Bizet. But above all, Dode was a prose writer. In his works one can distinguish two main directions: one distinguished by humor, irony and brilliance of imagination, another characteristic of the accuracy of observations Bringing Dode with naturalists. Although both directions are present in all the books of Daudet, his works can be divided into two groups. The first group is inspired by the Provence Letters from my mill (Lettres de mon moulin, 1869) and tartar from Tarascon (Tartarin de Tarascon, 1872) - the most original and famous of his works. The second group comprises mainly large novels in which he did not give too much imagination, tends to write off the characters with real people and places often elect Paris.

All this manifests itself in the best realist novels Dode. Fromon Jr., and Risler Senior (Fromont jeune et Risler an, 1874) - accurate and sympathetic portrayal of the life of the working quarters in Paris. Sappho (Sapho, 1884) tells of a fallen woman, discovers that true love is not enough to change lives. Among the other novels of this group - Jack (Jack, 1876), nabob (Le Nabab, 1877) and Kings in Exile (Les Rois en exil, 1879).

Daudet died in Paris on 17 December 1897.