IDENTITY
L'Immortel
Literature
Work Summary
A satirical novel centred on the French Academy and the ambitions surrounding admission to prestigious cultural institutions. Through the career of the scholar Astier-Réhu and the deceptions around him, Daudet attacks vanity, reputation, institutional authority and the social machinery of literary prestige.
Evidence Summary
Van Gogh calls it beautiful and true but hardly consoling; he jokes that he needs an extravagant adventure story afterward.
Direct evidence for emotional response to reading.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Alphonse Daudet
Work
L'Immortel
Years / Period
Sep 1888
Van Gogh Relation
Read, Discussed / Commented On
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
beautiful and true, but hardly consoling
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
Sep 1888 — Letter 672
Read / emotional response
beautiful and true, but hardly consoling
Response: Van Gogh calls it beautiful and true but hardly consoling; he jokes that he needs an extravagant adventure story afterward.
Connection: Direct evidence for emotional response to reading.
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