by Alphonse Daudet · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253004882
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«Le Petit Chose» is the semi-autobiographical novel by Alphonse Daudet, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (352 pages, in French).
Daniel Eyssette, a boy from the south of France, goes into exile in Lyon after his family's ruin, where a teacher contemptuously nicknames him «le Petit Chose». He then becomes a boarding-school supervisor terrified by his pupils and a poor young man in Paris. Daudet draws on his own life to portray humiliated childhood and bohemian life with humour and poetry, close to naturalism.
Originally published in 1868, it is Alphonse Daudet's first work, with a strongly autobiographical tone. This Le Livre de Poche edition, in its Classiques collection, is edited by Louis Forestier and Marie-France Azéma.
Suitable for students of French and for those seeking a classic of nineteenth-century French literature.
Louis Marie Alphonse Daudet was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée, Léon and Lucien Daudet.
