Ferdinand Brunetière

Ferdinand Vincent-of-Paul Marie Brunetière (July 19th 1849, Toulon - December 9th 1906, Paris) is a Critique arts person French.

University lecturer with the National university in 1886, in the 37 years age, it collaborates in the Review of the Two Worlds as of 1875 before becoming the director in about it 1895. Elected the French Academy in 1893, it succeeds John Lemoine with the armchair 28. It is converted with the Catholicisme into 1900.

Brunetière was primarily one holding of the rationalist classicism of the 17th century, which led it to be opposed sometimes hard to the literary schools of its time. He thus wrote against Zola the Novel naturalist and protested in 1892 against the project of a monument with Charles Baudelaire. He was also hostile with the Scientisme dominating, which brought it closer a time to an anarchist like Octave Mirbeau. Antidreyfusard, it showed, in 1898, the intellectuals supporters of Dreyfus to cant itself while intervening on a ground which was not theirs competence.

Principal writings

the Novel naturalist (1883)
Evolution of criticism (1890)
Evolution of the kinds in the history of the literature (1890)
Evolution of lyric poetry in France with the nineteenth century (1891 - 92)
History of the traditional French literature (1891 - 92)

History of the French theater (1891 - 92)

Tests on the contemporary literature (1892)

Manual of the history of the French literature (1898)

On the ways of the belief (1904)

Honore de Balzac (1905)

critical Studies on the history of the French literature (1880 - 1907)

; Posthumous publications

Speech of combat , (1907)

Letters of combat , (1912)

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