"From literary artistic and intellectual points of view the french 19th century is primarily that of romanticism.It would be interesting for the sensibilty of tamils today... ..We are in a society going topsy turvy,totally unstable,whose future is unstable.It becomes ugly under the yoke of triumphant industrialsation and the cult of "progress"by the bourgeois against which the poet Arthur Rimbaud will lead a revolution"
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Glimpses of the latter part of 19th century french literature
Literature on HistoryBaudelaire
Short story writers:Guy de Maupassant
Historic novels: Alexandre Dumas
Symbolism in Poetry
Foundation for latter day surrealism
Some quotes from 19th century writers
Man is a trainee and pain is his teacher (Musset)
To complain cry or pray are cowardice...(Vigny)
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