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Every generation needs a Jean Dutourd and a book like "Taxis
of the Marne" to put the times in to perspective. Although the story is
somewhat autobiographical, the subject matter takes in great swaths of
French national history and offers personal reflections on the movers
and shakers in the author's own time.
Dutourd wrote "Taxis" about five years before another great work of his, “The Horrors of Love,” which I highly recommend. These two works are rich and sentimental, which I have always loved about the French.
For instance, sample this passage from "Taxis":
“For once I had gone out without my buddies, prey to a longing for solitude which takes hold of me from time to time and which used to even at the age of fifteen. Solitude produces a special exaltation which seems to me a state of happiness, a vacancy of the mind and heart propitious to the most captivating adventures. I was walking along without any special place to go, picking up noises as a flower picks up pollen, watching, so to speak, my scattered ideas and feelings fall into place inside myself, and feeling a deep joy at observing the involuntary order establishing itself in my head and heart.”
Off the cuff, I just don’t think that kind of expression comes from any other source than a true Frenchman. A Russian might come close, but a little more harsh or self-loathing? "Taxis of the Marne," page after page, is filled with this stuff.
Dutourd wrote "Taxis" about five years before another great work of his, “The Horrors of Love,” which I highly recommend. These two works are rich and sentimental, which I have always loved about the French.
For instance, sample this passage from "Taxis":
“For once I had gone out without my buddies, prey to a longing for solitude which takes hold of me from time to time and which used to even at the age of fifteen. Solitude produces a special exaltation which seems to me a state of happiness, a vacancy of the mind and heart propitious to the most captivating adventures. I was walking along without any special place to go, picking up noises as a flower picks up pollen, watching, so to speak, my scattered ideas and feelings fall into place inside myself, and feeling a deep joy at observing the involuntary order establishing itself in my head and heart.”
Off the cuff, I just don’t think that kind of expression comes from any other source than a true Frenchman. A Russian might come close, but a little more harsh or self-loathing? "Taxis of the Marne," page after page, is filled with this stuff.
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