Contes de Caliban

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bergerat, Emile, 1845-1923

Language:

French

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"Contes de Caliban" by Émile Bergerat is a collection of humorous short stories written in the early 20th century. The book explores various themes and societal observations through a lens of wit and satire, often focusing on unique characters such as Yan Béjarec, a man with a peculiar vocation tied to fertility and familial dynamics. The stories aim to provoke thought while entertaining the reader with intriguing plots and dialogues. The opening of the collection features the story of Yan Béjarec, who is introduced as a somewhat simple yet well-meaning man in his late seventies, known for his remarkable ability to assist couples in conceiving children. Shifting from a marriage involving two sisters-one fertile and the other not-the tale unfolds as Béjarec's reputation grows within the rural community after he unorthodoxly helps friends, leading to humorous yet touching episodes. His life's work intertwines with themes of family, love, and societal expectations, revealing an underlying critique of moral conventions and the human condition as it relates to parenthood and relationships. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Contents:

Béjarec le faiseur d'enfants

Coco et Bibi

Le premier mot

Un cas de psychomancie

L'étranglé hilare

Le coup de la belle-mère

Le crime du moulin au moulin du crime

Le mariage de Cambronne

Loys Égarot ou l'argent d'autrui

Le sieur «On»

Lazoche, peintre d'idéaux

Orderic le «babuineur»

Scipion Garsoulas

La dame du sonnet

Le bon chevalier de Frileuse

Les petits romans de Géraldine

Un duel darwiniste

Les bottes de vingt-huit kilomètres

Cendrillon en automobile

Le diable en Bretagne

Les demi-âmes

L'enfant perdu

L'héritage d'Yvon Legoaz

Azeline

La tache d'encre

La Vénus vitriolée

La plus terrible arme du monde

A deux de jeu

L'alliance

L'horreur humaine

Les chemises sanglantes

Une femme libre

Le récit du chirurgien

La trouée

Credits:

Produced by Tonya Allen and PG Distributed Proofreaders. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr

Notes:

Reading ease score: 79.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contes_de_Caliban

Release date is 2004-05-01