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Le dernier festin de M. Minxit ou l importance du repas amical dans Mon oncle Benjamin de Claude Tillier

Title in English The last supper of Mr. Minxit or the importance of friendly meal in My uncle Benjamin Claude Tillier
Authors

POUČOVÁ Marcela

Year of publication 2011
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Médiévales 48
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Education

Citation
Field Mass media, audiovision
Keywords Claude Tillier My uncle Benjamin French Literature of the 19th century
Description Claude Tillier was born in 1801 in Clamecy. In his novel My Uncle Benjamin, he created the image of rural society under the ancien regime carefree. But the novel is indeed full of critiques against the municipal authorities and religious at the time of Nevers and Clamecy. This satirical criticism earned the author a lot of problems. The character of Benjamin joined him in the sense of Jacques the Fatalist or Figaro. Nevertheless, it is much more radical is independent, is already the son of the Revolution that the heroes of Diderot and Beaumarchais could not even imagine. In the 20th century, the novel was filmed in 1969 by Edouard Molinaro.

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