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Contes du lundi
Daudet écrit ce recueil de nouvelles sous le coup de la guerre de 1870. Dans la première partie, 'La Fantaisie et l'histoire', son propos est moins de s'attarder à des faits militaires hauts en couleur que de décrire le quotidien d'une guerre vécue au jour le jour par de petites gens. La seconde partie, 'Caprices et souvenirs', évoque plutôt ses mémoires personnelles.
317 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1876
About the author
Alphonse Daudet
1,880 books201 followersStories of life of French writer Alphonse Daudet of the naturalist school in his native Provence include
Lettres de mon moulin
(1869).
Louis Marie Alphonse Daudet authored novels. He was the younger brother of Ernest Daudet. He was married to Julia Daudet and the father of Léon Daudet, Lucien Daudet and Edmée Daudet, all writers.
Family on both sides belonged to the bourgeoisie. Vincent Daudet, the father, manufactured silk, but misfortune and failure dogged the man through life. A boyhood depressed Alphonse amid much truancy had. He spent his days mainly at Lyon, left in 1856, and began life as a schoolteacher at Alès, Gard, in the south. The position proved intolerable. As Charles Dickens declared that all through his prosperous career, the miseries of his apprenticeship to the blacking business haunted him in dreams, so after Daudet left Alès, he woke with horror, thinking for months that he still dwelt among his unruly pupils.
On 1 November 1857, he abandoned teaching and took refuge with Ernest Daudet, his brother only some three years his senior, who tried "soberly" to make a living as a journalist in Paris. Alphonse took to writing, and a small volume, Les Amoureuses (1858), collected his poems and met with a fair reception. He obtained employment on Le Figaro, then under energetic editorship of Cartier de Villemessant, and wrote two or three plays; those interested in literature began to recognize him as possessing individuality and promise. Morny, all-powerful minister of Napoleon III, appointed Daudet, who held a post of his secretaries till death of Morny in 1865, and Morny showed Daudet no small kindness. Daudet put his foot on the road to fortune.
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Louis Marie Alphonse Daudet authored novels. He was the younger brother of Ernest Daudet. He was married to Julia Daudet and the father of Léon Daudet, Lucien Daudet and Edmée Daudet, all writers.
Family on both sides belonged to the bourgeoisie. Vincent Daudet, the father, manufactured silk, but misfortune and failure dogged the man through life. A boyhood depressed Alphonse amid much truancy had. He spent his days mainly at Lyon, left in 1856, and began life as a schoolteacher at Alès, Gard, in the south. The position proved intolerable. As Charles Dickens declared that all through his prosperous career, the miseries of his apprenticeship to the blacking business haunted him in dreams, so after Daudet left Alès, he woke with horror, thinking for months that he still dwelt among his unruly pupils.
On 1 November 1857, he abandoned teaching and took refuge with Ernest Daudet, his brother only some three years his senior, who tried "soberly" to make a living as a journalist in Paris. Alphonse took to writing, and a small volume, Les Amoureuses (1858), collected his poems and met with a fair reception. He obtained employment on Le Figaro, then under energetic editorship of Cartier de Villemessant, and wrote two or three plays; those interested in literature began to recognize him as possessing individuality and promise. Morny, all-powerful minister of Napoleon III, appointed Daudet, who held a post of his secretaries till death of Morny in 1865, and Morny showed Daudet no small kindness. Daudet put his foot on the road to fortune.
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May 11, 2019
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کتابی که در جنگ نوشته شده و بالطبع مالامال از وطن پرستی فرانسوی!
افرادی که الفونس دوده به تصویر میکشد اغلب سرشار از انسانیت ان...انچه که این روز ها کمتر و کمتر می شود و از انسان رنگ میبازد..صورت خاکستری رنگ انسان امروز در داستان های دوده همچنان گرم و زنده است
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قسمت دوم:"هوس ها و خاطرات"
هنر نویسندگی دوده در این قسمت خود را به بهترین وجه به نمایش میگذارد,داستان کوتاه"با سیصدهزار فرانکی که ژیرادن به من وعده داده.."فوق العاده ست..امید های واهی..دیوار هایی میسازند واهی و پوچ,دیوار های پوچ کاخ هایی میسازند پوچ و مبهم..و همانند سایه ای مبهم از یک کاخ در یک شب مه گرفته..دور و نامطمن..آن زمان که به اطراف مینگرم نگاه نامطمن ادم ها را سرشار میبینم..سرشار از همین امید های واهی.."
پ.ن:"نگرانی های یک بچه کبک سرخ"خدا بود
December 23, 2019
Short, poignant tales about the Franco-Prussian War.
March 20, 2025
Aslında güzel ve incelikli durum öykülerine sahip olsa da okuma keyfi düşük bir kitap bana göre.
Daudet durum tasvirinde oldukça yetkin bir yazar ancak anlattığı olaylar ve coğrafya bize uzak olduğundan mıdır nedir, tam anlamıyla içselleştiremedim. Öyküler ağırlıkla 19. yüzyıl ikinci yarısında Prusya ve Fransa arasında yaşanan savaşlarda insanların ve toplumun yaşadıklarını konu alıyor. Birçok öyküde birçok açıdan bu izleri takip edebiliyoruz. Dünya savaşlarından önce bu halkların Avrupa kıtası içerisinde nasıl bir mücadele ve savaş haline zaten çoktan girmiş olduğunu, nasıl bir ayrışma yaşadığını da tekrar gözler önüne seriyor.
Daudet durum tasvirinde oldukça yetkin bir yazar ancak anlattığı olaylar ve coğrafya bize uzak olduğundan mıdır nedir, tam anlamıyla içselleştiremedim. Öyküler ağırlıkla 19. yüzyıl ikinci yarısında Prusya ve Fransa arasında yaşanan savaşlarda insanların ve toplumun yaşadıklarını konu alıyor. Birçok öyküde birçok açıdan bu izleri takip edebiliyoruz. Dünya savaşlarından önce bu halkların Avrupa kıtası içerisinde nasıl bir mücadele ve savaş haline zaten çoktan girmiş olduğunu, nasıl bir ayrışma yaşadığını da tekrar gözler önüne seriyor.
October 27, 2025
read for uni
August 15, 2015
Free download (in French) available at Project Gutenberg.
Original files provided by Gallica-BnF.
Opening lines:
Ce matin-là j'étais très en retard pour aller à l'école, et j'avais grand'peur d'être grondé, d'autant que M. Hamel nous avait dit qu'il nous interrogerait sur les participes, et je n'en savais pas le premier mot. Un moment l'idée me vint de manquer la classe et de prendre ma course à travers champs.
Original files provided by Gallica-BnF.
Opening lines:
Ce matin-là j'étais très en retard pour aller à l'école, et j'avais grand'peur d'être grondé, d'autant que M. Hamel nous avait dit qu'il nous interrogerait sur les participes, et je n'en savais pas le premier mot. Un moment l'idée me vint de manquer la classe et de prendre ma course à travers champs.
September 29, 2015
"Chez Alphonse Daudet, le talent du conteur égale la délicatesse du sentiment et la finesse de l’observation". Si je commence avec cette citation c’est parce qu’elle résume bien mon opinion sur l’œuvre d’Alphonse Daudet. Dans le cas concret de Contes du lundi, l’écrivain divise en deux parties son livre: la première, contextualisée dans la guerre franco-prussienne de 1870-1871, réunit des histoires émouvantes ("La dernière classe" est un exemple particulièrement touchant), héroïques, qui soulignent le côté le plus patriotique de la France; la deuxième partie, qui s’intitule "caprices et souvenirs", rassemble d’autres contes tout aussi réussis. C’est avec plaisir que j’ai relu "Les trois messes basses" que j’avais déjà bien aimé pendant la lecture de Lettres de mon moulin, tout en savourant les autres histoires qui font de ce recueil de contes un livre à relire.
December 24, 2017
Savaş-Savaşlar ve savaş mağdurları günümüz dünyasında bir türlü birbirinden ayırarak yok edemediğimiz üçgen parçaları zihnimin parçalanmasını istiyorum, bir güneş ışığının sayesinde buharlaşıp gitmeyi kaldıramıyorum çocukluk ve gençliği pis bir ülke ve dünya gündeminde yaşamak ve uğraş vermeye izin bile olmayan bağımlı bir özgürlük senaryosunun etrafinı sarması dünyadaki ve ülkemizdeki umutsuzluk boyutunun her zaman kendi umutlarımızı katledecek kadar büyük felaketlere hazır olduğunu bilmek anlamsızlık ve tükenmişlik belki de tüm bu kötülüklere bir organizma olan vücudun yaşamı son bulana kadar katlanmaktır çare ya da umursamaz bir canlıya dönüşmek kendi bencilliğimizin içine tüm dünyanın kötü taraflarını gömmek ve mutlu olduğumuz anılara sarılmak bizi tehdit eden sorgulama ve düşünme yetilerini kaybetmek her insan profilinin kaçış yolu olmalı fakat ben henüz kaçış yolunu bulamadım ve her günün ilk ışıklarıyla kendime ve de zihnime tehdit mektupları yazıyorum edebiyat süzgecinden geçen dünyayla bütünlük sağlayan tehdit mektupları bugün Fransa'dan yarın Lübnan'ın başkentinden dünyaya açılan başka bir yazardan başka bir gün Amerika'da kendi düzenlerini sorgulayan
bir yazardan ama istisnasız her gün ülkemizdeki tehditkar yazarlardan
esinlenerek yazıyorum.
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esinlenerek yazıyorum.
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June 25, 2025
Inzichtelijke kleine verhalen, doorspekt met humor en veel kennis.
90% ervan krijgt een overtuigde vijfsterrenrating.
90% ervan krijgt een overtuigde vijfsterrenrating.
May 1, 2021
Contes du Lundi ( or “Monday Stories”) is a disparate but fascinating collection of short stories, long anecdotes, short vignettes, and plain old good reportage, gently fictionalized by the great French raconteur Alphonse Daudet, famous for Lettres de Mon Moulin, his picturesque tales of 19th century Provençale France.
What Daudet lacks in depicting characters--almost all are paint-by-number descriptions--he makes up for by his devoted and detailed recounting of places and predicaments, especially historical ones. Since we all now mostly have the attention span of a fruit fly, many readers will be too restless to allow the writer to lead them by the hand from one vivid but winding circumstance to the next. And yet, if you take the time to adapt to the slow pacing of the passages and their descriptions the result is a deeply gratifying pilgrimage into the quotidien past. In these stories--most of them inspired by or based on true events--Daudet is first and last a reporter, on the scene, taking down all the tiny details of daily life. Many of the stories veer in the end towards pathos, but several others are humorous, poking skewered fun at such human weakness as vanity, laziness or gluttony.
The first and best part of the book centers on and brings to life the the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and then the brief but tragic interlude of the Commune, which set disgruntled soldiers and workers on the far left against the centrist Republicans who ran France under the control of Adolphe Thiers, later president of the Third Republic. To understand the stories one really must have a passing knowledge of the Franco-Prussian War and of the Commune, and the ill-fated and grotesquely Pyrrhic infighting to seize Paris. Without some acquaintance with the facts the reader will become mired in wondering who is fighting on whose side, where, and why. Thus even a quick bit of Wikipedia-style research ahead of time will provide big dividends in understanding the decidedly confusing historical events as they unwound.
The stories, often sentimental, tell of a French school master in Alsace who is being forced to relieve his duties by the invading Prussians, a pair of elderly parents desperate to see their son on leave for only a few minutes, and a child who unwittingly betrays his country with the resulting death of his father. But God is in the details here, making each somewhat maudlin tale come vividly and painstakingly to life. In the course of his stories Daudet lovingly describes a ruined bridge months after it has been bombarded, deftly paints the portrait of poor Parisian women knitting and gossiping on their door sills, and zeroes in on the way peasants use wind from the ocean to help them winnow their wheat. Thus the stories offer a front row seat to life in the middle of the 19th century.
The second part of the book is less successful, a hodge-podge of accounts from different places, including Algeria, Sardinia, and Brittany, or small vignettes of lives poignantly lived. This section includes one of Daudet's most famous tales, "Les Trois Messes Basses," in which the devil tempts a Catholic priest on Christmas Eve to shortchange Midnight Mass in his hurry to get to the feast that will follow. There is also a very uncharacteristic story of a partridge, told in the first person, who with the help of a wise old rooster witnesses his first animal massacre at the hands of human hunters. It is told as usual with telling details and the same empathy and compassion Daudet bestows on many of the featherless bipeds of his other stories.
Ultimately Les Contes du Lundi is a vicarious time machine that entreats the 21st century reader to take their time to listen and to look, attentively and with curiosity, at a world that is now long gone but which we get to slowly savor in these pages.
What Daudet lacks in depicting characters--almost all are paint-by-number descriptions--he makes up for by his devoted and detailed recounting of places and predicaments, especially historical ones. Since we all now mostly have the attention span of a fruit fly, many readers will be too restless to allow the writer to lead them by the hand from one vivid but winding circumstance to the next. And yet, if you take the time to adapt to the slow pacing of the passages and their descriptions the result is a deeply gratifying pilgrimage into the quotidien past. In these stories--most of them inspired by or based on true events--Daudet is first and last a reporter, on the scene, taking down all the tiny details of daily life. Many of the stories veer in the end towards pathos, but several others are humorous, poking skewered fun at such human weakness as vanity, laziness or gluttony.
The first and best part of the book centers on and brings to life the the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and then the brief but tragic interlude of the Commune, which set disgruntled soldiers and workers on the far left against the centrist Republicans who ran France under the control of Adolphe Thiers, later president of the Third Republic. To understand the stories one really must have a passing knowledge of the Franco-Prussian War and of the Commune, and the ill-fated and grotesquely Pyrrhic infighting to seize Paris. Without some acquaintance with the facts the reader will become mired in wondering who is fighting on whose side, where, and why. Thus even a quick bit of Wikipedia-style research ahead of time will provide big dividends in understanding the decidedly confusing historical events as they unwound.
The stories, often sentimental, tell of a French school master in Alsace who is being forced to relieve his duties by the invading Prussians, a pair of elderly parents desperate to see their son on leave for only a few minutes, and a child who unwittingly betrays his country with the resulting death of his father. But God is in the details here, making each somewhat maudlin tale come vividly and painstakingly to life. In the course of his stories Daudet lovingly describes a ruined bridge months after it has been bombarded, deftly paints the portrait of poor Parisian women knitting and gossiping on their door sills, and zeroes in on the way peasants use wind from the ocean to help them winnow their wheat. Thus the stories offer a front row seat to life in the middle of the 19th century.
The second part of the book is less successful, a hodge-podge of accounts from different places, including Algeria, Sardinia, and Brittany, or small vignettes of lives poignantly lived. This section includes one of Daudet's most famous tales, "Les Trois Messes Basses," in which the devil tempts a Catholic priest on Christmas Eve to shortchange Midnight Mass in his hurry to get to the feast that will follow. There is also a very uncharacteristic story of a partridge, told in the first person, who with the help of a wise old rooster witnesses his first animal massacre at the hands of human hunters. It is told as usual with telling details and the same empathy and compassion Daudet bestows on many of the featherless bipeds of his other stories.
Ultimately Les Contes du Lundi is a vicarious time machine that entreats the 21st century reader to take their time to listen and to look, attentively and with curiosity, at a world that is now long gone but which we get to slowly savor in these pages.
July 8, 2021
Alphonse Daudet’n novellikokoelma on onnistunut ja lämminhenkisen impressionistinen lyhytproosasikermä, joka vie onnistuneesti historiasta kiinnostuneen lukijansa Preussin armeijan Ranskan invaasioon, Pariisin piiritykseen ja lopulta kommuunin kukistumiseen hallituksen joukoille toukokuussa 1870.
Novelleissa on paljon samaa kuin Runebergin Vänrikki Stoolin tarinoissa, sillä tässäkin muuan kenraali pelaa biljardia, vaikka pyssyt paukkuvat ja tykit laulavat ihan niin kuin Sandelsin herkutellessa Koljonvirran maisemissa.
Viidessätoista novellissa ääneen pääsevät tapahtumiin osallistuvat nostomiehet, sotilaat ja heidän äitinsäkin, ja välillä on ulkopuolinen tarkkailija, joka välittää surumieliseen sävyyn inhimillistä kärsimystä ja toisinaan hetkellistä toivoa. Tapahtumat noudattelevat kronologiaa, eli alkuun Napoleon III:n joukot kohtaavat pettymyksiä, tappioita ja piirityksiä, kunnes tulee sisällissodan aika Pariisin kaduilla, jolloin osa henkilöhahmoista ei tiedä, kenen puolella taistella. Ruumiita tulee niin tykistökeskityksissä kuin kommuunin romahtamisen aikoihin, kun kapinalliset pannaan valmiiksi hautausmaalle teloitettavaksi.
Ylevää isänmaallisuutta saadaan tarinoihin mukaan, kun lipunkantajista ja vanhoista sotajermuista tehdään sankarihahmoja, ja saapuupa muutamaan otteeseen päärooliin Algeriasta taistelijoita preussilaisia vastaan. Myös fantasia-aineksia on mukana, kun vanha keijukaisäiti pane tyttäriensä kanssa Pariisin tuleen keväällä 1870, ja enkelimäinen kreolilaistyttö tulee kolibreineen kylmän talven keskelle, jolloin itse luontoäitikin heltyy.
Kieli on ihastuttavan vanhahtavaa, sillä onhan käännös vuodelta 1908, jolloin kranaatit olivat granaatteja ja sotilasterminologia asusteineen ihan toista kuin nykykäännöksissä.
Novelleissa on paljon samaa kuin Runebergin Vänrikki Stoolin tarinoissa, sillä tässäkin muuan kenraali pelaa biljardia, vaikka pyssyt paukkuvat ja tykit laulavat ihan niin kuin Sandelsin herkutellessa Koljonvirran maisemissa.
Viidessätoista novellissa ääneen pääsevät tapahtumiin osallistuvat nostomiehet, sotilaat ja heidän äitinsäkin, ja välillä on ulkopuolinen tarkkailija, joka välittää surumieliseen sävyyn inhimillistä kärsimystä ja toisinaan hetkellistä toivoa. Tapahtumat noudattelevat kronologiaa, eli alkuun Napoleon III:n joukot kohtaavat pettymyksiä, tappioita ja piirityksiä, kunnes tulee sisällissodan aika Pariisin kaduilla, jolloin osa henkilöhahmoista ei tiedä, kenen puolella taistella. Ruumiita tulee niin tykistökeskityksissä kuin kommuunin romahtamisen aikoihin, kun kapinalliset pannaan valmiiksi hautausmaalle teloitettavaksi.
Ylevää isänmaallisuutta saadaan tarinoihin mukaan, kun lipunkantajista ja vanhoista sotajermuista tehdään sankarihahmoja, ja saapuupa muutamaan otteeseen päärooliin Algeriasta taistelijoita preussilaisia vastaan. Myös fantasia-aineksia on mukana, kun vanha keijukaisäiti pane tyttäriensä kanssa Pariisin tuleen keväällä 1870, ja enkelimäinen kreolilaistyttö tulee kolibreineen kylmän talven keskelle, jolloin itse luontoäitikin heltyy.
Kieli on ihastuttavan vanhahtavaa, sillä onhan käännös vuodelta 1908, jolloin kranaatit olivat granaatteja ja sotilasterminologia asusteineen ihan toista kuin nykykäännöksissä.
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paris'te köylüler: 3/5
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komünün türkosu: 3/5
kervansaray: -
hayırsız zuhaf: 3/5
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colmar yargıcının gözüne görünenler: -
chauvin'in ölümü: 3/5
casus çocuk: 4/5
bougival saati: 2/5
bizim kepi: -
bilardo partisi: 2/5
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kitapta ve kanalda yer alan öykülerden şu ana kadar dinlediklerim:
üç uyarı: 4/5
satılık ev: 3/5
papa öldü: 4/5
yemek tabloları: 2/5
peynir çorbası: 2/5
noel öyküleri I: 3/5
noel öyküleri II: 4/5
kör imparator: 3/5
girardin'in bana söz verdiği üçyüzbin frankla: 4/5
deniz kıyısında hasat: 3/5
bir kızıl keklik yavrusunun yürek çarpıntıları: 4/5
bir kayıt yazmanı: 3/5
tarascon savunması: 3/5
bir ilk gösteri akşamı: 2/5
arthur: 3/5
ayna: 3/5
sekizincide konser: 2/5
sancaktar: 4/5
poğaçalar: 3/5
pere-lachaise çarpışması: 2/5
paris'te köylüler: 3/5
ileri karakollarda: -
komünün türkosu: 3/5
kervansaray: -
hayırsız zuhaf: 3/5
gemide iç konuşma: -
geçici sal: 4/5
fransa perileri: 2/5
colmar yargıcının gözüne görünenler: -
chauvin'in ölümü: 3/5
casus çocuk: 4/5
bougival saati: 2/5
bizim kepi: -
bilardo partisi: 2/5
berlin'in kuşatılması: 4/5
belisaire'in prusyalısı: 2/5
November 3, 2007
mardake chauviniste ahmagh!dashtam ketabo mikhoondam dirooz va hamash fekr mikaradm in yaroo ajab chauviniste ahmaghi boode.ye dafe didam ye dastan dar bareye khode jenabe chauvin va managhebo fazayele ishoon neveshe.kolli kahndidam behesh:))))
May 10, 2012
Bonnes histoires courtes sur la guerre franco-germanique de 1870. Dans ses histoires il transmet les sentiments probable du "petit" monde. Tu vois que cette guerre a eu influence majeure sur sa vie et sa façon de penser. Il transmet vraiment des sentiments forts.
September 14, 2011
I loved it..so interesting..about people and soldiers during the war in france
August 31, 2026
Collection de plus de quarante "contes" écrits et publiés, pour la plupart, sur plusieurs années dans des journaux sous divers titres de séries. Bons nombres sont fortement marqués par l’invasion Prussienne et par la Commune.
Je profite de la programmation de mon club de lecture et la catégorie "classique français" pour inclure ce recueil et ainsi étendre ma maigre connaissance de l’oeuvre de Daudet, dont "Les Lettres de mon Moulin" ont marqué ma petite enfance (je garde en tête surtout ceux qui ont une coloration fantastique puisque c’est ceux que mon père choisissait pour me les lire à voix haute) puis ma jeunesse quand je les ai lu par moi-même (ne restent toujpurs en mémoire que ceux de mon enfance!). C’est dans ces prémices que je "découvre" un Dauset et une oeuvre plus sombre, moins espiègle (quoi qu’on retrouve ce trait dans plusieurs histoires), parfois même ennuyeux malgré ses qualités, j’ai fait quelques overdoses bleues de Prusse. Parlons de ces qualités qui me sont chères dans l’écriture de Daudet : il y a cet usage des petits détails, un critique les qualifie de "miettes qui auraient échappées même aux moineaux", saupoudrés comme des paillettes merveilleuses qui illuminent le texte déjà poétique, y compris quand il raconte l’horreur et même le mépris, car Daudet n’y va pas avec le dos de la cuillière pour montrer sa pensée et ses aspirations politiques. Il y a cette musicalité, qui appelle tantôt à lire avec l’accent titi des faubours parisiens, tantôt avec celui des guarrigues. En bref, il y a toujours une parcelle de l’enchantement du regard neuf d’enfant et une gourmandise qui rend la lecture facile malgré le vocabulaire et les sujets difficiles.
Je profite de la programmation de mon club de lecture et la catégorie "classique français" pour inclure ce recueil et ainsi étendre ma maigre connaissance de l’oeuvre de Daudet, dont "Les Lettres de mon Moulin" ont marqué ma petite enfance (je garde en tête surtout ceux qui ont une coloration fantastique puisque c’est ceux que mon père choisissait pour me les lire à voix haute) puis ma jeunesse quand je les ai lu par moi-même (ne restent toujpurs en mémoire que ceux de mon enfance!). C’est dans ces prémices que je "découvre" un Dauset et une oeuvre plus sombre, moins espiègle (quoi qu’on retrouve ce trait dans plusieurs histoires), parfois même ennuyeux malgré ses qualités, j’ai fait quelques overdoses bleues de Prusse. Parlons de ces qualités qui me sont chères dans l’écriture de Daudet : il y a cet usage des petits détails, un critique les qualifie de "miettes qui auraient échappées même aux moineaux", saupoudrés comme des paillettes merveilleuses qui illuminent le texte déjà poétique, y compris quand il raconte l’horreur et même le mépris, car Daudet n’y va pas avec le dos de la cuillière pour montrer sa pensée et ses aspirations politiques. Il y a cette musicalité, qui appelle tantôt à lire avec l’accent titi des faubours parisiens, tantôt avec celui des guarrigues. En bref, il y a toujours une parcelle de l’enchantement du regard neuf d’enfant et une gourmandise qui rend la lecture facile malgré le vocabulaire et les sujets difficiles.
December 16, 2024
[book 54/50 of 2024 reading challenge (challenge completed)]
"Quand un peuple tombe esclave, tant qu'il tient bien sa langue, c'est comme s'il tenait la clé de sa prison"
Une phrase très forte qui comporte un message crucial. Nous suivons Franz, un alsacien qui ne portait pas tant d'attention à l'apprentissage de la langue française, ni à son professeur, il se rend compte que la séance du jour est la dernière ou il aura la chance d'étudier cette langue, et qu'à partir de demain, le français sera remplacé par l'allemand. L'histoire se déroule durant la guerre prussienne qui interdit le français dans les écoles.
"Quand un peuple tombe esclave, tant qu'il tient bien sa langue, c'est comme s'il tenait la clé de sa prison"
Une phrase très forte qui comporte un message crucial. Nous suivons Franz, un alsacien qui ne portait pas tant d'attention à l'apprentissage de la langue française, ni à son professeur, il se rend compte que la séance du jour est la dernière ou il aura la chance d'étudier cette langue, et qu'à partir de demain, le français sera remplacé par l'allemand. L'histoire se déroule durant la guerre prussienne qui interdit le français dans les écoles.
November 7, 2021
3.5 ⭐
" It's in the morning when miseries of others in Paris seem even bigger.. "
A larger part of short stories in this collection deal with French - Prussian war and the siege of Paris. But when Daudet writes about seemingly unimportant details he makes truly remarkable stories. My favorite is "The Last Book" about a writer whose latest book comes few hours too late. The description of room full of books piled around a dead author, exitmemt of seeing a newly published book and apprehension of having failed in that endeavor made a great picture - story about one literary life.
" It's in the morning when miseries of others in Paris seem even bigger.. "
A larger part of short stories in this collection deal with French - Prussian war and the siege of Paris. But when Daudet writes about seemingly unimportant details he makes truly remarkable stories. My favorite is "The Last Book" about a writer whose latest book comes few hours too late. The description of room full of books piled around a dead author, exitmemt of seeing a newly published book and apprehension of having failed in that endeavor made a great picture - story about one literary life.
January 30, 2018
Военные рассказы полны такого пренеприятного патриотизма, что читать не хочется. Очень полезно, конечно, с точки зрения понимания французского национализма, но уж очень тяжело. Ну, и в целом, этот сборник невеселый.
August 28, 2019
Alphonse Daudet, Fransa-Prusya savaşını temel alarak toplumun birçok kesimine ışık tutmuş.
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February 19, 2023Ma mère m’avait lu dans la voiture La dernière classe, quand j’étais petite et l’histoire m’avait bien attristée.
July 3, 2024
Giờ mới biết truyện Buổi Học Cuối Cùng từng học nằm ở tập truyện này (Truyện kể ngày thứ 2) chứ không phải Lá Thư Hè
January 22, 2025
Ce roman m'a été recommandé par un ami. C'est un livre nostalgique et charmant.
April 26, 2026
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December 7, 2020
Δεύτερη ανάγνωση κρίνεται απολυτως απαραίτητη.
April 17, 2016
یک داستان کلاسیک . شرح ما وقع در زمان اشغال فرانسه به دست نیروهای آلمان توی قرن نوزدهم هول و هوش ۱۸۸۰ هست . کار نثر روون و جونداری داره ولی با توجه به بازگشتش به زبان دیگری به نظر میاد تا حدی از قدرت تاثیرش کم شده ! چرا که به هظر من اثر یک درام کلاسیک یا یک گزارش دراماتیک بر فولکلور لوکالایز بودن اون اثره . اما به هر حال کار متوسط هست و ارزش یک بار خوندن رو خصوصا با هدف قیاس با کارهای وطنی داره .
September 13, 2018
Yazar, Alsace-Lorraine bölgesinin, yıllarca iki ulus arasında gidip gelen yazgısından başlayarak, Fransa-Prusya savaşı gölgesinde, toplumun her kesiminden döneme ışık tutan öykülerini, kronolojiye sadık kalarak, Paris komünü ve Versay Hükümetinin Komünü bastırışıyla bitirir.
January 16, 2014
Every single story excited me. This book turned into one of my favourites!
April 27, 2025
những mẩu chuyện nhỏ, hồi ký thời kỳ chiến tranh Pháp - Phổ. Một vài truyện khá hay.
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