“Les pensées et maximes sont un genre épuisé et un genre futile.”
Les contemporains
French critic and dramatist Jules Lemaître was born #OTD in 1853.
His literary studies were collected under the title of Les Contemporains (7 series, 1886–99), and his dramatic feuilletons as Impressions de Théàtre (10 series, 1888–98). Lemaître found Zola's naturalism to be excessively deterministic and pessimistic.
Books by Jules Lemaître at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5505