Project Gutenberg 2008-08-24 Public domain in the USA. 79 Janin, Jules Gabriel 1804 1874 Janin, J. (Jules) Johannot, Tony 1803 1852 L'âne mort Reading ease score: 70.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Pierre Lacaze and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) "L'âne mort" by Jules Gabriel Janin is a novel written in the early 19th century. The book explores complex themes through its narrative that features an anthropomorphic donkey, highlighting the intersection of life, death, and human emotion. The story promises to take readers on a journey that examines societal views on death and the absurdities of life, presented through a darkly comedic lens. At the start of the narrative, the author sets the stage with a preface that engages in a dialogue with the reader and the critic, addressing the expectations of both as the story unfolds. The plot begins with a grim scene at the "Barrière du Combat," a brutal arena where a donkey, once proud and lively, faces a tragic fate as it is attacked by savage dogs. This moment of death evokes bittersweet memories of the narrator's own connections to the donkey, named Charlot, and signifies the intertwining of past joys and present sorrows. The narrator’s reflections on life and death, alongside vivid imagery, establish a tone that combines melancholy with a critique of the human condition, foreshadowing more profound explorations as the story progresses. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr French fiction -- 19th century PQ Text FR Littérature Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 391740 390455 2024-10-11T10:01:06.494879 2023-09-12T03:33:48.236814 text/html text/html 437255 2021-01-04T00:54:38 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 4853750 2021-01-04T00:54:38 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 4785751 2024-10-11T10:01:24.467798 application/epub+zip 4793379 2024-10-11T10:01:13.765832 application/epub+zip 219890 2024-10-11T10:01:07.577861 application/epub+zip 4497562 2024-10-11T10:01:29.427725 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 4451358 2024-10-11T10:01:18.716840 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 308121 2022-09-12T09:26:23.250500 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 357358 357102 2024-10-11T10:01:05.206896 2023-09-12T03:33:47.439788 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 348502 2021-01-04T00:54:37 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 136802 2021-01-04T00:54:38 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 21085 2024-10-11T10:01:29.591725 application/rdf+xml 11410 2024-10-11T10:01:08.135834 image/jpeg 3215 2024-10-11T10:01:07.859882 image/jpeg 4797692 2024-10-11T10:01:06.804848 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia