IDENTITY
Tartarin sur les Alpes
Literature
Work Summary
A comic sequel in which Tartarin travels to Switzerland and becomes involved in mountaineering, tourism and exaggerated alpine adventure. The novel continues Daudet's contrast between Tartarin's heroic imagination and the more prosaic reality surrounding him.
Evidence Summary
He uses its characters and episodes as a detailed analogy for Gauguin.
Direct literary-personality comparison.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Alphonse Daudet
Work
Tartarin sur les Alpes
Years / Period
17 Jan 1889
Van Gogh Relation
Reread, Quoted / Copied, Compared / Connected, Recommended / Sent
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
17 Jan 1889 — Letter 736
Compared / Connected · Quoted / recommended / applied to Gauguin
Van Gogh asks whether Gauguin has read Tartarin sur les Alpes and urges Theo to reread the relevant passage.
Response: He uses its characters and episodes as a detailed analogy for Gauguin.
Connection: Direct literary-personality comparison.
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