Tre Mirigaj Aventuroj de Tartarin de Taraskono : romano

by Alphonse Daudet

Other authorsPaul Le Brun (Translator), Jean Delor (Translator), Lucien Guézennec (Illustrator)
Book, 1955

Status

Available

Call number

848

Publication

Herolde de Esperanto

Description

CROWNED BY THE FRENCH ACADEMYAlphonse Daudet was a French novelist and playwright. His father was a silk manufacturer who suffered reverses and lost his property. Daudet took a post as a schoolteacher at Ales, Gard, but found it intolerable, and moved to Paris to live with his brother, Ernest, who was working as a journalist. Daudet wrote poetry and several plays, and secured employment as a secretary to Morny, a Minister of Napoleon III.Tatarin of Tarascon is a tale of the adventures of Tartarin, a local hero of Tarascon, a small town in southern France.The book spawned two sequels: Tartarin sur les Alpes and Port-Tarascon, as well as three film adaptations. Unpopular in the area of Tarascon when first issued, the Tatarin adventures made Tarascon famous, and there is now a museum in Tarascon devoted to Tatarin.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member hbergander
Tartarin is the prefiguration of a Mediterranian type, being rather economical with the truth. He could be Quijote and Sancho in a single person.

Language

Original language

French

Original publication date

1872
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