Prosper Mérimée (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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Prosper Mérimée experimented with various literary forms at the start of his career, before discovering that fiction was his true artistic vocation. His first composition, never published, was a tragedy in the Romantic style concerning Oliver Cromwell, and the first work published was a set of four critical articles on the theater of Spain’s Golden Age. His debut as an author of books was made in disguise, in the form of two literary hoaxes, one volume purporting to be a group of six plays translated from the Spanish, the other a collection of Illyrian...
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