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Lucrul ce s-a observat cel mai puţin, şi care va face totdeauna o scriere unică, este simpltiatea subiectului şi desfăşurarea povestirii, care, conce… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
" "Lucrul ce s-a observat cel mai puţin, şi care va face totdeauna o scriere unică, este simpltiatea subiectului şi desfăşurarea povestirii, care, concentrată între trei persoane, se susţine de-a lungul a şase volume, fără întâmplări, fără aventuri ca în romane, fără răutăţi de nici un fel, nici în personaje, nici în fapte. Diderot i-a adus mari laude lui Samuel Richardson pentru mulţimea personajelor sale. Richardson are, în adevăr, meritul de a le fi descris pe toate bine; cât despre numărul lor, el este asemenea celor mai searbezi romancieri, care înlocuiesc sărăcia ideilor prin bogăţia personajelor şi a întâmplărilor. E uşor să trezeşti atenţia, prezentând la nesfârşit şi fapte nemaipomenite şi chipuri noi, care se perindă ca imaginile din lanterna magică; dar a ţine mereu trează atenţia asupra aceloraşi lucruri, şi fără aventuri uluitoare, asta este, desigur, mai greu; şi dacă, lăsând la o parte altele, simplitatea subiectului contribuie la frumuseţea operei, romanele lui Richardson, superioare în atâtea alte privinţe, nu vor putea fi, sub acest raport, puse în paralelă cu al meu. El e mort, totuşi, o ştiu, şi ştiu şi din ce cauză; dar va învia.
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About Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a major French-speaking Genevan philosopher of Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism.
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Citizen of Geneva
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O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen the pompous face of this Rome saved by your efforts and which your honourable name had distinguished more than all its conquests? 'Gods,' you would have said, 'what has happened to those thatched roofs and those rustic dwelling places where, back then, moderation and virtue lived? What fatal splendour has succeeded Roman simplicity? What is this strange language? What are these effeminate customs? What do these statues signify, these paintings, these buildings? You mad people, what have you done? You, masters of nations, have you turned yourself into the slaves of the frivolous men you conquered? Are you now governed by rhetoricians? Was it to enrich architects, painters, sculptors, and comic actors that you soaked Greece and Asia with your blood? Are the spoils of Carthage trophies for a flute player? Romans, hurry up and tear down these amphitheatres, break up these marbles, burn these paintings, chase out these slaves who are subjugating you, whose fatal arts are corrupting you. Let other hands distinguish themselves with vain talents. The only talent worthy of Rome is that of conquering the world and making virtue reign there. When Cineas took our Senate for an assembly of kings, he was not dazzled by vain pomp or by affected elegance. He did not hear there this frivolous eloquence, the study and charm of futile men. What then did Cineas see that was so majestic? O citizens! He saw a spectacle which your riches or your arts could never produce, the most beautiful sight which has ever appeared under heaven, an assembly of two hundred virtuous men, worthy of commanding in Rome and governing the earth.
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