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Some critics use the label to refer only to non-supernatural horror stories, especially those that have nasty climactic twists, but it is applicable to any story whose conclusion exploits the cruel aspects of the 'irony of fate.' [1] The collection from which the short-story genre of the conte cruel takes its name is Contes cruels (1883, tr ...
S. T. Joshi considers it to be "Carr's most formally radical or unconventional mystery" and one of Carr's three best non-series novels, observing that it is a "novel-length conte cruel". [1] Randall Garrett noted that Carr "told the absolute truth — within the framework of the story — and left it to the reader to delude himself". [2]
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Balzac projected a hundred Contes drolatiques, basing his title on that of Antoine de la Sale's Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles. [1] He was acutely conscious of the French heritage of the conte; he probably wrote his Théorie du conte (Theory of the Short Story) as an introduction to the Contes drolatiques in 1851 or early 1852. [2]
Conte (pronounced) is a literary genre of tales, often short, characterized by fantasy or wit. [1] They were popular in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries until the genre became merged with the short story in the nineteenth century.
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As revenge for his cruel actions, Scipio (pretending to be his father) fools him into taking a ride. Barbarossa rapidly deages. He breaks the merry-go-round in panic, permanently stopping its magic, but he has become a young boy. Scipio and Prosper leave after promising the Conte that they will not talk about the merry-go-round.
Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam [1] (7 November 1838 – 19 August 1889) was a French symbolist writer. His family called him Mathias while his friends called him Villiers; he would also use the name Auguste when publishing some of his books.