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SOURCE: Schweitzer, Jerome W. “The Scudérys Revisited: Georges de Scudéry (1601-1667).” In Renaissance and Other Studies in Honor of William Leon Wiley, edited by George Bernard Daniel, Jr., pp. 203-14. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1968.
In the essay below, Schweitzer surveys Scudéry's career and attempts to assess his place in literary history.
Un grotesque? Un fantoche? Un matamore? Sans doute … Mais, dans son outrance même, un type bien latin. Moustache de chat, feutre emplumé, fou comme don Quichotte, fier comme Bragance et vantard comme Tartarin, ce bohème de lettres d'autrefois a des titres à notre indulgence. On l'oublie, on l'ignore, on ne le comprend plus. Après tout, c'est peut-être dommage. …1
May 14, 1967, marked the tercentenary of the death of Georges de Scudéry.2 As some critics have remarked and Rathéry and Boutron intimate,3 this so-called matamore des lettres had...
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