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It is unknown at what age Savinien arrived in Paris. In this theory, it was there that he was introduced to his cousin Pierre, [note 15] with whom, according to Le Bret, he would build a lasting friendship. He continued his secondary studies at an academy which remains unknown. But there is no certainty that Savinien went to live with them.
That age when nature is most easily corrupted, and that great liberty he had to only do that which seemed good to him, brought him to a dangerous weakness penchant , which I dare say I stopped…. Historians and biographers do not agree on this penchant which threatened to corrupt Cyrano's nature. Against an embittered and discontented father, Cyrano promptly forgot the way to his father's house. Soon he was counted among the gluttons and hearty drinkers of the best inns, with them he gave himself up to jokes of questionable taste, usually following prolonged libations…He also picked up the deplorable habit of gambling.
This kind of life could not continue indefinitely, especially since Abel de Cyrano had become completely deaf to his son's repeated requests for funds. In his voluminous biography of Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy , Jean-Luc Hennig suggests [41] that the poet-musician had begun around at thirty-one a homosexual relationship with Cyrano, then seventeen. In support of this hypothesis, he notes that both had families from Sens, a lawyer father and religious brothers and sisters, that the elder only liked youths and in regard to the women of Montpellier who accused him in of neglecting them, he wrote that "all of that has no more foundation than their fanciful imagination, already concerned, which had taught them the long-time habits [that he] had had with C[hapelle], late D[e] B[ergerac] and late C.
He received his first education from a country priest, and had for a fellow pupil his friend and future biographer Henri Lebret. At the age of nineteen, he entered a corps of the guards, serving in the campaigns of and His unique past allowed him to make unique contributions to French art. One author, Ishbel Addyman, varies from other biographers and claims that he was not a Gascon aristocrat , but a descendant of a Sardinian fishmonger and that the Bergerac appellation stemmed from a small estate near Paris where he was born, and not in Gascony, and that he may have suffered tertiary syphilis.
She also claims that he may likely have been homosexual and around became the lover of Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy , [46] a writer and musician, until around , when they became engaged in a bitter rivalry. This led to Bergerac sending d'Assoucy death threats that compelled him to leave Paris. The quarrel extended to a series of satirical texts by both men. He is said to have left the military and returned to Paris to pursue literature, producing tragedies cast in the orthodox classical mode. The model for the Roxane character of the Rostand play was Bergerac's cousin, who lived with his sister, Catherine de Bergerac, at the Convent of the Daughter of the Cross.
As in the play, Bergerac did fight at the Siege of Arras a battle of the Thirty Years' War between French and Spanish forces in France though this was not the more famous final Battle of Arras , fought fourteen years later. However, the plotline of Rostand's play, Cyrano de Bergerac , involving Roxane and Christian is entirely fictional. Cyrano was a pupil of French polymath Pierre Gassendi , a canon of the Catholic Church who tried to reconcile Epicurean atomism with Christianity.
Cyrano de Bergerac's works L'Autre Monde: In the former, Cyrano travels to the moon using rockets powered by firecrackers it may be the earliest description of a space flight by use of a vessel that has rockets attached and meets the inhabitants. The moon-men have four legs, firearms that shoot game and cook it, and talking earrings used to educate children. His mixture of science and romance in the last two works furnished a model for many subsequent writers, among them Jonathan Swift , Edgar Allan Poe and probably Voltaire. The play suggests that he was injured by a falling wooden beam in while entering the house of his patron, the Duc D'Arpajon.
However the academic and editor of Cyrano's works, Madeleine Alcover, uncovered a contemporary text which suggests an attack on the Duke's carriage in which a member of his household was injured. At this time he wrote what many consider to be his greatest novel, Pierre et Jean. With a natural aversion to society, he loved retirement, solitude, and meditation. He traveled extensively in Algeria , Italy, England, Brittany , Sicily , Auvergne , and from each voyage brought back a new volume. He cruised on his private yacht Bel-Ami , named after his novel.
This life did not prevent him from making friends among the literary celebrities of his day: Alexandre Dumas, fils had a paternal affection for him; at Aix-les-Bains he met Hippolyte Taine and became devoted to the philosopher-historian. Flaubert continued to act as his literary godfather.
His friendship with the Goncourts was of short duration; his frank and practical nature reacted against the ambiance of gossip, scandal, duplicity, and invidious criticism that the two brothers had created around them in the guise of an 18th-century style salon. Maupassant was one of a fair number of 19th-century Parisians including Charles Gounod , Alexandre Dumas, fils , and Charles Garnier who did not care for the Eiffel Tower.
Maupassant also wrote under several pseudonyms such as Joseph Prunier, Guy de Valmont, and Maufrigneuse which he used from to In his later years he developed a constant desire for solitude, an obsession for self-preservation, and a fear of death and paranoia of persecution caused by the syphilis he had contracted in his youth.
Guy De Maupassant penned his own epitaph: Maupassant is considered a father of the modern short story. He delighted in clever plotting, and served as a model for Somerset Maugham and O.
Henry in this respect. The supernatural in Maupassant, however, is often implicitly a symptom of the protagonists' troubled minds; Maupassant was fascinated by the burgeoning discipline of psychiatry , and attended the public lectures of Jean-Martin Charcot between and Leo Tolstoy used Maupassant as the subject for one of his essays on art: The Works of Guy de Maupassant. His stories are second only to Shakespeare in their inspiration of movie adaptations with films ranging from Stagecoach , Citizen Kane , Oyuki the Virgin and Masculine Feminine.
Friedrich Nietzsche 's autobiography mentions him in the following text:. I can name as a sample — for their number is by no means small, Gene Roddenberry , in an early draft for The Questor Tapes , wrote a scene in which the android Questor employs Maupassant's theory that, "the human female will open her mind to a man to whom she has opened other channels of communications. Due to complaints from NBC executives, this part of the script was never filmed. Michel Drach directed and co-wrote a French biographical film: Camus concludes that we must instead "entertain" both death and the absurd, while never agreeing to their terms.
Caligula ends up admitting his absurd logic was wrong and is killed by an assassination he has deliberately brought about. However, while Camus possibly suggests that Caligula's absurd reasoning is wrong, the play's anti-hero does get the last word, as the author similarly exalts Meursault's final moments. Camus made a significant contribution to a viewpoint of the Absurd, and always rejected nihilism as a valid response.
If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
A Capetian genealogy is not family affair ; it is an affair of state. In The Rebel , Camus identifies rebellion or rather, the values indicated by rebellion as a basis for human solidarity. A year afterwards his situation, which had for some time been decidedly flourishing, showed signs of changing very much for the worse. Corneille argued the Aristotelian dramatic guidelines were not meant to be subject to a strict literal reading. Alexandre Dumas, fils had a paternal affection for him; at Aix-les-Bains he met Hippolyte Taine and became devoted to the philosopher-historian.
Camus's understanding of the Absurd promotes public debate; his various offerings entice us to think about the Absurd and offer our own contribution. Concepts such as cooperation, joint effort and solidarity are of key importance to Camus, though they are most likely sources of "relative" versus "absolute" meaning. In The Rebel , Camus identifies rebellion or rather, the values indicated by rebellion as a basis for human solidarity.
When he rebels, a man identifies himself with other men and so surpasses himself, and from this point of view human solidarity is metaphysical. But for the moment we are only talking of the kind of solidarity that is born in chains. Despite his opposition to the label, Camus addressed one of the fundamental questions of existentialism: Deciding whether or not life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question in philosophy.
All other questions follow from that. Throughout his life, Camus spoke out against and actively opposed totalitarianism in its many forms. On the French collaboration with Nazi occupiers he wrote: Camus publicly reversed himself and became a lifelong opponent of capital punishment.
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Camus's well-known falling out with Sartre is linked to his opposition to authoritarian communism. Camus detected a reflexive totalitarianism in the mass politics espoused by Sartre in the name of Marxism. Camus continued to speak out against the atrocities of the Soviet Union , a sentiment captured in his speech The Blood of the Hungarians , commemorating the anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution , an uprising crushed in a bloody assault by the Red Army.
One further important, often neglected component of Camus' philosophical and literary persona was his love of classical Greek thought and literature, or philhellenism. This love looks back to his youthful encounters with Friedrich Nietzsche , his teacher Jean Grenier , and his own sense of a "Mediterranean" identity, based in a common experience of sunshine, beaches, and living in proximity to the near-Eastern world.
The culmination of the latter work defends a "midday thought" based in classical moderation or mesure , in opposition to the tendency of modern political ideologies to exclusively valorise race or class, and to dream of a total redemptive revolution. Camus' conception of classical moderation also has deep roots in his lifelong love of Greek tragic theatre, about which he gave an intriguing address in Athens in From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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