Contes cruels (Cruel Tales) is a two-volume set of about 150 tales and short stories by the 19th-century French writer Octave Mirbeau, collected and edited... 6 KB (647 words) - 00:17, 19 March 2024 |
exploits the cruel aspects of the 'irony of fate.' The collection from which the short-story genre of the conte cruel takes its name is Contes cruels (1883,... 3 KB (376 words) - 19:43, 1 March 2021 |
Eve (1886), and the short-story collection Contes cruels (1883, tr. Sardonic Tales, 1927). Contes cruels is regarded as an important collection of horror... 12 KB (1,439 words) - 01:03, 30 April 2024 |
the heart of gold stereotype was Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's Contes cruels - there the prostitute was well regarded while she plied her trade in... 11 KB (1,383 words) - 16:40, 8 April 2024 |
torture par l'espérance ("Torture by Hope") from the collection Nouveaux contes cruels by the French writer Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam and from La Légende... 7 KB (861 words) - 22:48, 7 February 2023 |
2004, Terre d'ombre, for large orchestra and electronic sounds 2007, Contes cruels, for 2 electric guitars and orchestra 2013, Reflections / Reflets I... 10 KB (1,134 words) - 00:39, 12 January 2023 |
directed against bourgeois materialism, as in Villiers de L'Isle-Adam's Contes cruels [Cruel Tales] (1883) and Tribulat Bonhomet (1887). The decadent Symbolists... 59 KB (8,109 words) - 06:59, 17 January 2024 |