biography
pronunciation:
[ruhnah(r)]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1864–1910)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Châlons-sur-Mayenne, SC France. He studied at Nevers and in Paris, and after his marriage in 1888 devoted himself to writing. His best-known work is Poil de carotte (1894), a bitterly ironical account of his own childhood. Although he lived mostly in Paris, he never lost touch with his native countryside, and depicted rural life with humour and cruel realism in Les Philippe (1907), and Nos frères farouches and Ragotte (both 1908). Histoires naturelles (1895) portrays animal life in a comical way. He also wrote plays, including a dramatization of Poil de carotte (1900). His 17-volume Journal (published 1925–7), is regarded as an important testimony of literary life from 1857 to 1910. He was a founder-member of the Mercure de France (1890), and was elected to the Académie Goncourt in 1907. |
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