The Immortal (Daudet novel)
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| Author | Alphonse Daudet |
|---|---|
| Original title | L'Immortel |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
The Immortal (French: L'Immortel) is a roman à clef by French author Alphonse Daudet, first published in 1888. The novel was serialized in L'Illustration, from May 5 to July 7, 1888, and apeared soon thereafter in book form. Being a sweeping and trenchant attack upon the French Academy, the self-perpetuating body of forty authors, known as "The Immortals."
Characters
- Léonard Astier-Réhu — member of the French Academy (who already apeared in Tartarin on the Alps)[1]
- Paul Astier — an architect (who is reintroduced as a main character in Daudet's 1889 drama The Struggle for Life)[2]
- Adélaïde Astier
- Abel de Freydet — a provincial poet
- Védrine — a painter and sculptor, a self-portrait of Daudet
- Danzou — a dramatist, considered to be a satire of Édouard Pailleron
- Jean Réhu — a deaf old Academy doyen, considered to be a satire of Michel Eugène Chevreul
- Albin Fage — a hunchback bookbinder, inspired by the forger Denis Vrain-Lucas, who famously duped eminent mathematician Michel Chasles
- Maria Antonia Padovani — a Duchess
- Colette de Rosen
- Samy, Prince d'Athis
- Count de Bretigny — based upon Albert de Broglie
- Corentine
- Lavaux
- Loisillon — perpetual secretary of the Academy, drawn on Camille Doucet
- Gazan — based upon Ernest Renan
- Lamboise — based upon Maxime Du Camp
- Herscher — based upon Émile Zola
Translations into English
- One of the "Forty" (1888; translated by A.W. Verrall & Margaret de G. Verrall)[3]
- The Immortal (1889; translated by Mary Joanna Safford as "J. M. Percival")
- The Immortal (1898; translated by George Burnham Ives)
Notes
- ↑ Poet Paul Verlaine created the adjective "astierrehuesque" on the basis of this character.
- ↑ Anon., "Parisian Darwinism: The Struggle-for-Lifeur", The Westminster Review, Vol. CXXXIII (1890), pp. 163–71.
- ↑ Also serialized in the pages of The Universal Review.
References
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- Gille, Philippe (1891). La bataille littéraire, Vol. 4. Paris: Victor-Havard.
- Magué, André (1889). Réponse aux détracteurs de l'Académie francaise. L'Institut doit étre respecté. Paris: Imp. V. Rougerat.
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- Pontmartin, Armand de (1884). "Le roman contemporain." In: Souvenirs d'un vieux critique, Vol. 10. Paris: Calmann Lévy, pp. 17–31.
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