[Gutenberg 34957] • The Children of Alsace (Les Oberlés)

Excerpt from The Children of Alsace (Les Oberles)

Rene bazin is already known to the English public as a writer of exquisite charm and wonderful sensibility. The Nun, Redemption, and This My Son have revealed his powers to appreciative readers. Bazin is not only an original writer, a charming story-teller, but also a deep thinker, a clear delineator of human character and life, a, wonderful landscape-painter, and a bold realist. For it is real life, humble, poignant, palpitating, which we meet in his stories. Life, full of misery and suffering, but also of pity and charity, of self-sacrifice and heroic traits. Bazin is a passionate admirer of Nature, and this admiration and love manifest themselves in his preference for pastoral and rural scenes, and his description of nature and peasant life.