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Anatole France

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Noun1.Anatole FranceAnatole France - French writer of sophisticated novels and short stories (1844-1924)


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About Edmund Wilson and the term, Bender cites Wilson's admiration for Anatole France, who had been "transformed by the Dreyfus Affair," becoming "a writer in the public realm, attacking narrowness, bigotry, and injustice wherever he found it," and to whom Paul Valdry was succeeding in the Academie Francaise.
Several bits of meat included here would be known even without Proust's jelly: Sarah Bernhardt (who inspired La Berma), Monet (Elstir), Faure (Vinteuil), Anatole France (Bergotte).
The novel's interpolation of Anatole France, in particular, speaks unmistakably to this project.
 
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