Hespire Wrote:
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> I wonder what makes CAS so suited
> for European, or at least French, tastes. Could it
> be his romantic and classical themes?
I'm not surprised by CAS' popularity amongst French speakers, given the whole fin de siècle movement, Baudelaire, and the enduring popularity of both Lovecraft and Poe in France. Any country that could originate the Grand Guignol certainly has a taste for the weird!
I've been re-learning my French recently and some day I hope to buy one of the beautiful French-language CAS volumes from Les Éditions Mnémos. What could be better than reading the Averoigne stories in French!
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