Numa Rudestan. Dode A.

In the novel “Numa Rumestan”, which was originally called “North and South”, Dode shows the French south: pompous, classic, theatrical, adores spectacles, costumes, scaffolds, magnificent sultans, fanfars...

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< P> In the south, people are insinuating and flattering, they are selflessly and blindly eloquent, and at the same time absolutely colorless. Color and paint - the destiny of the north, with its short, but terrible outbreaks of anger and unnatural grimaces and... inexhaustible imagination. So Dode “pushes” their heroes, contrasting each other with such unlike “southerners” of the father and daughter of Le Kenois and the “northerners” of Rumetan and Bompar.