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Daudet himself confessed that the work had been written too soon and with too little reflection. "I wish I had waited," he said; "something good might have been written on my youth". "Tartarin de Tarascon" was written in 1869. Success and happiness had crowned Daudet's efforts.
"Le Petit Chose," his first long work, had been begun in 1866 during his stay in Provence; it was published in 1868. The first part, which is of great interest, is largely autobiographical and covers the childhood and youth of the writer up to his first years in Paris; the second part is a colorless romance of no particular merit.
From his youth he exercised this instinct and carried a notebook in which he set down impressions, studies, and sketches of characters and scenes. These notebooks proved to be of inestimable value to the realist; and the natural inclination to seek the naked truth, to which they bear witness, strengthened the determination of the postbellum Daudet to enter the ranks of the sociological novelists.
But no mortal man is living, how strong so e'er in his youth, who shall lightly hale it elsewhere, since a mighty wonder forsooth is wrought in that fashioned bedstead, and I wrought it, and I alone.
"Entre les frises et la rampe" contains studies of the stage and its people. Daudet claimed to be an independent, and was indignant when an attempt was made to class him with any school. He was certainly independent in his youth, but in his second period, after the war, he became a realist with Flaubert and Zola and an impressionist with Goncourt.
Je me suis assis dans le cimetière, au pied de l'orme sous lequel, en 1807, lord Byron écrivait ces vers, au moment où je revenais de la Palestine: Spot of my youth! whose hoary branches sigh, Swept by the breeze that fans thy cloudless sky, etc.
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