Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — Tolstoi on French Writers. [ARTICLE]

Tolstoi on French Writers.

Tcba French interviewer Tolstoi late--4y Aaid 1 : “AlpljtonsE liaudot had a certain talent. l’anl Bourget was a brilliant essayist, but a poor novelist, his head, being tpo crammed With facts. M,arcpi l’revost is worth more thin his books,, which arp ‘jnqualifiables.’ Guy de Maupassant know how to see aud i tell what lie had seen. His style was as pure as a precious metal. He was miles ahead of Flaubert, Zola and everybody. ( Zola is a diligent and plodding writer. I like his ’Germinal,’ and ‘La Terre’ Is a novel of pleasant humanity. As for ‘Lourdes,’ I stopped at the hundredth page, and ‘Rome’ I never opened.”