IDENTITY
Les Deux Frères
Literature
Work Summary
Les Deux Frères by Erckmann-Chatrian is a novel by the Alsatian writing partnership Erckmann-Chatrian centred on two brothers and the family or social conflicts surrounding them. Like much of their fiction, it places ordinary provincial lives within a strongly observed regional and moral setting.
Evidence Summary
He connects its Alsatian setting with a group of artists and writers working in a similar spirit.
Explicit comparison of literary milieu and visual artists of Alsace.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Erckmann-Chatrian
Work
Les Deux Frères
Years / Period
22 Sep 1882
Van Gogh Relation
Read, Compared / Connected
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
22 Sep 1882 — Letter 265
Compared / Connected · Reading
Van Gogh says he has been reading Les deux frères and calls it quite beautiful.
Response: He connects its Alsatian setting with a group of artists and writers working in a similar spirit.
Connection: Explicit comparison of literary milieu and visual artists of Alsace.
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