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This is the first of three volumes of translations of Antoine-Louis Duclaux, Comte de L’Estoille (1835-1894). This book collects his earlier works, including the Breton fantasy The Miller of Carnac (1866), as well as a suite of Arabian Tales (1865), the prose poems of Symphony (1867), the defiantly experimental Fusains (1868), and the epic drama…
The Song of the Skylark (1880) is quite uncategorizable, defying classification as a novel, yet its complexity stretching the notion of a book-length “poem in prose”. It is unique in the annals of French literature, although it has certain affinities with Edgar Quinet’s Merlin the Enchanter (1860), which similarly attempts to fuse a transfiguration of…
This third and final collection of Comte de L’Estoille’s works features Les Amoureuses, a collection of short prose poems and dramas, including “Gyptis,” a tragedy set within the context of L’Estoille’s pseudohistory of Gaul, and “Marthe” and “Rosalie,” both resentful responses to the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. It also contains the more upbeat…
