IDENTITY
L'Évangéliste
Literature
Work Summary
L'Évangéliste by Alphonse Daudet is a novel about an intensely evangelical woman whose religious zeal damages family relationships and contributes to the separation of a mother from her child. Daudet uses the story to criticize religious fanaticism and the emotional consequences of doctrinaire belief.
Evidence Summary
He explicitly compares the novel's intrigues with a situation he is describing in Nuenen.
Direct literature–life comparison.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Alphonse Daudet
Work
L'Évangéliste
Years / Period
2 Oct 1884
Van Gogh Relation
Compared / Connected, Recommended / Sent
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
2 Oct 1884 — Letter 464
Compared / Connected · Recommended / compared to lived situation
Van Gogh tells Theo to read L'Évangéliste about female intrigues.
Response: He explicitly compares the novel's intrigues with a situation he is describing in Nuenen.
Connection: Direct literature–life comparison.
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