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Prosper Mérimée ( French: [pʁɔspɛʁ meʁime]; 28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) [1] was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, an important figure in the history of architectural preservation.
Prosper Mérimée, né le 28 septembre 1803 à Paris et mort le 23 septembre 1870 à Cannes, est un écrivain, historien et archéologue français . Issu d'un milieu bourgeois et artiste, Prosper Mérimée fait des études de droit avant de s'intéresser à la littérature et de publier dès 1825 des textes, en particulier des nouvelles, qui le ...
Prosper Mérimée (born Sept. 28, 1803, Paris—died Sept. 23, 1870, Cannes, Fr.) was a French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and master of the short story whose works— Romantic in theme but Classical and controlled in style—were a renewal of Classicism in a Romantic age. Of a cultured, middle-class Norman background, Mérimée first ...
Carmen at Wikisource. Carmen is a novella by Prosper Mérimée, written and first published in 1845. It has been adapted into a number of dramatic works, including the famous opera of the same name by Georges Bizet. [1]
According to Mérimée, Dale concludes, the writer’s fictional works incorporate a worldview that reflects his own psyche or inner self. Raitt, A. W. Prosper Mérimée. London: Eyre and ...
Prosper Mérimée was the only child of a comfortable middle-class couple, both of whom were artists by profession and freethinking republicans in outlook. Growing up in Paris, and in such a ...
For the full article, see Prosper Mérimée . Prosper Mérimée, (born Sept. 28, 1803, Paris, France—died Sept. 23, 1870, Cannes), French short-story writer and dramatist. In youth a student of languages and literatures, he wrote his first play, Cromwell (1922), at age 19. His passions were mysticism, history, and the unusual.
