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IDENTITY

Césarine

Literature

Work Summary

Césarine by Jean Richepin is a novel centred on its title character and the passions and social relationships surrounding her. It belongs to Richepin's fiction concerned with desire, unconventional behaviour and conflicts between individual impulses and social convention.

Evidence Summary

He says he likes the supposedly mad woman's remark that all of life is well-constructed equations.

Direct stated reaction to a character's idea.

CONTEXT

Author / Source

Jean Richepin

Work

Césarine

Years / Period

18 Sep 1888

Van Gogh Relation

Read, Quoted / Copied

EVIDENCE

Key Quotation

CONNECTIONS

Evidence Trail

18 Sep 1888 — Letter 683

Read · Read / quoted reaction

Van Gogh says he has read Richepin's Césarine.

Response: He says he likes the supposedly mad woman's remark that all of life is well-constructed equations.

Connection: Direct stated reaction to a character's idea.

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