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Brunetière

[ brynuh-tyer ]

noun

  1. Fer·di·nand [fe, r, -dee-, nahn], 1849–1906, French literary critic.


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That literature and language, we have been told by no less an authority than M. Brunetière, are pre-eminently social in their strength and their weakness.

He sums up Ferdinand Brunetière as "constipé," a sound definition of a shrewd, unsympathetic critic.

Brunetière, who was serious to solemnity, and lacked a funny bone, declared that Huysmans borrowed the incident from a popular vaudeville, Le Voyage à Dieppe, by Fulgence and Wafflard.

Huysmans loved Baudelaire as much as Brunetière detested him.

He has told us that because of the diversity of his aptitudes man is distinguished from his fellow animals, and the variety in his labours is a proof positive of his superiority to such fellow critics as the mentally constipated Brunetière, the impressionistic Anatole France, the agile and graceful Lemaître, and the pedantic philistine Faguet.

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