Baby. Dode A.

“Baby” is the first publication of the French classic writer Alphonse Dode (1840-1897) in large prose. This novel, published in 1868, called something “like an autobiography”, although some events are fictitious.

The novel affects an important topic of psychological growing up, which for the protagonist, a young man named Daniel Eiset, is not It has come. He fully acquitted the nickname the baby, which was once given to him. Daniel, formally an adult, in the soul remains a child who needs to be patronized and directed. In this state of things, the surrounding people are partly to blame, but partly - Daniel himself, who is convenient to be a baby.