Binary opposition is the most important aspect that can reveal how humans think, produce meaning and understand reality (Culler, 1976). Therefore, discovery of binary oppositions useful in providing clues to workings human reason. In context narrative analysis, logic behind a made. Based on this, this study highlights formation contained novel "Lettres de Mon Moulin" by Alphonse Daudet uses Lév...

It is sixty years since penicillin was first used to treat syphilis and, as a consequence, the ravages of its tertiary stage have faded from medical memory. All the more enlightening then to read this excellent first English translation of La Doulou (1930), a personal account of neurosyphilis written by the French novelist, playwright and journalist, Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897). Although largel...

In this chapter, excerpts from famous or little-known works of French literature are used to illustrate how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physicians tried to treat neuropsychiatric illnesses. Although the causes were unknown to them, they did not hesitate to inflict suffering on their patients, who were often in an appalling condition to begin with. Novelists such as Gustave Flaubert, Alph...

It is sixty years since penicillin was first used to treat syphilis and, as a consequence, the ravages of its tertiary stage have faded from medical memory. All the more enlightening then to read this excellent first English translation of La Doulou (1930), a personal account of neurosyphilis written by the French novelist, playwright and journalist, Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897). Although largel...

Différemment d’autres œuvres écrites par Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897), le recueil de contes Les Femmes d’artistes (1874) n’a pas suscité l’intérêt la critique lors sa parution; jusqu’à présent il occupe une place secondaire dans les études menées domaine universitaire. Dans recherche effectuée fonds périodiques numérisés Bibliothèque nationale du Brésil, l’on a trouvé cependant sept des douze qu...