Ferdinand Brunetière

Ferdinand Brunetière ( born July 19, 1849 in Toulon, † December 9, 1906 in Paris) was a French writer and literary critic.

Life

Brunetière went to Marseille to school. He then studied at the Lycée Louis- le -Grand. First, he aspired to a career as a teacher, but he failed in the exams at the École Normale Supérieure. The outbreak of the Franco-German War in 1879 kept him from a second experiment. After he had published some articles in the Revue Bleue, he started for the Revue des Deux Mondes to work, first as a simple staff, but rose to 1893 chief editor of the magazine. From 1886 worked Brunetière as Maître de conférences (Professor) for French language and literature at the École Normale Supérieure. In 1887 he was appointed a member of the Légion d' Honneur, in 1893 he was elected to the Académie française. Before 1895 Brunetière was classified as a rationalist. In this year he published an article about a visit to the Vatican in which he expressed the view that science is unable to generate moral norms of society. He did not shrink from the confrontation with authorities. Because of its rigor, intolerance and aggression, this has meant that he has been rejected by many, even by those who appreciated his professional skills and his intellectual abilities.

Works

• Le Roman naturaliste (1883 )
• Évolution de la critique (1890)
• Évolution of genres dans l' histoire de la littérature (1890)
• Évolution de la poésie lyrique en France au dix- neuvième siècle (1891-1892)
• Histoire de la littérature française classique (1891-1892)
• Histoire du théâtre français (1891-1892)
• Essais sur la littérature contemporaine (1892 )
• Manuel de l' histoire de la littérature française (1898 )
• Sur les chemins de la croyance (1904 )
• Honoré de Balzac (1905 )
• Études critiques sur l' histoire de la littérature française (1880-1907)
• Discours de combat (1907 )
• Lettres de combat (1912 )