Life and creativity of Alexander Dumas

Alexander Dumas is the first famous writer-craftsman in the 19th century French literature. He conquered the theater scene as the author of the first romantic drama-bestseller in France - Henry III and his Yard (1829). His acclaim as an amazingly productive novelist (published in a lifetime of 257 volumes) spread very fast throughout Europe in the middle of the 19th century. His voluminous work is dominated by his masterpieces "The Three Musketeers" and "Twenty Years Later" , with which the enterprising novelist creates his authority as a master of "Piano and the Sword." They do not cease to excite the imagination of curious adolescents who prefer novels with intricate intrigue, brave knights, swirling cavalcades, and fierce duels.

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Researchers, who have an affinity with strict classifications, have attributed the work of Dumas-father to the so-called "popular literature." This definition contains some mockery of this novelist's unusual creative productiveness. Indeed, this writer exploits skillfully the fashionable literary conventions that are imposed in the French romantic novel in the 1930s. It is known that in 1826 he wrote several elegies, designed according to antiquities, formed during the archaic epoch, canons, with which he responds to the fashion in Paris salons. Prior to this, influenced by the pretentious taste of the Parisian aristocrats, he composed several passions, which the prosperous novelist later heavily conceals. The acquisition of a significant state and wide reputation represents for Dumas-father a peculiar rematch for the stubborn battle that leads to being imposed on a higher educated society as a fashion writer. His biographers report that most of his creative endeavors resolved his complex of a "poles mixed marriage" son. Through his father, the writer is connected with the higher aristocracy, and through his mother he perceives the enterprising spirit of the property civil class.

Dumas's grandfather was a creole who earned the prestigious noble title of "marquis". He left France and settled on the island of San Domingo (today Haiti), where he acquired a son from a black slave. After accepting the name of her mother, the writer's father enters the royal army. During the Great Revolution he became famous with his courage and ascended to the senior military rank of General. Later General Dumas married the daughter of a wealthy merchant from Ville-Kotre, where he retired in 1802 after being severely ill and losing Napoleon's confidence and loyalty. Alexander Dumas was born on July 24, 1802. His father died four years later and left his family in desperate poverty. At home, they did not spend time and money on raising the child, and from 1817 she was forced to earn her livelihood as a clerk at a notary. In 1823, the young Adolescent Alexander arrived in Paris. There he took advantage of the courtesy of his father's comrades, General Dumas. General Fau notices that the young man is writing very beautifully and assists him to be accepted as a clerk in the Duchess of Orleans office.

As the first rehearsal for the young Dumas, he can be considered successful in Paris, where he provides his life for himself and dedicates his entire leisure time to self-education. His teenage dream is to become a poet or playwright. During the Age of Restoration, when King Charles X was on the throne in France, the wishes of most young Frenchmen who witnessed the previous heroic era of "being Napoleon or nothing" is now virtually impossible. Then the enterprising young Dumas decided that only the dedication of literary creative work could lead to glory.