by Prosper Mérimée, Alfred de Musset, Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant · Nathan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782091872179
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«Quatre nouvelles réalistes sur l'argent: XIXe siècle» is the anthology of realist short stories by Mérimée, Musset, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam and Maupassant.
It brings together four nineteenth-century French tales —«La partie de trictrac», «Mimi-Pinson», «Virginie et Paul» and «La Dot»— that portray, with a sometimes relentless eye, the changing attitude towards money between 1830 and 1884, from Mimi-Pinson's carefree spirit to the petty calculation of the end-of-century bourgeoisie.
French edition published by Nathan in 2007; 142 pages, paperback. Part of the Carrés Classiques collection, aimed at the French school market.
Aimed at secondary school students studying nineteenth-century French realism; its pedagogical material makes it a school support.
Prosper Mérimée was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, an important figure in the history of architectural preservation. He is best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen. He learned Russian, a language for which he had great affection, before translating the work of several notable Russian writers, including Pushkin and Gogol, into French. From 1830 until 1860 he was the inspector of French historical monuments, responsible for the protection of many historic sites, including the medieval citadel of Carcassonne and the restoration of the façade of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. Along with the writer George Sand, he discovered the series of tapestries called The Lady and the Unicorn, arranging for their preservation. He was instrumental in the creation of Musée national du Moyen Âge in Paris, where the tapestries now are displayed. The official database of French monuments, the Base Mérimée, bears his name.
