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Tag: Mateo Falcone

Mateo Falcone – Analysis

Posted on January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 by JL Admin

Prosper Merimee’s short story “Mateo Falcone” (1829) culminates in the killing of a ten-year-old boy by his father; the killing—the question needs to be posed whether it is a murder—takes place in a ravine in the rugged hills of Corsica, and its victim bears the ironic name of Fortunato. The father and killer, Mateo Falcone,…

Mateo Falcone – Setting

Posted on January 9, 2021January 9, 2021 by JL Admin

Napoleonic France  By the time of Merimee’s birth in 1803, Napoleon, a Corsican who had made himself Emperor of France, was at the height of his power. By 1814, when Merimee was eleven years old, Napoleon’s wars had devastated Europe. Napoleon finally was beaten at the hands of an allied force led by the Duke…

Mateo Falcone – Literary Devices

Posted on January 9, 2021January 9, 2021 by JL Admin

Romanticism and Realism  “Mateo Falcone” (1829) illustrates the cruel toll exacted on a Corsican family by the code of vendetta, or feud. Falcone kills his own son, Fortunato, because the son has betrayed a man to the authorities. Two concerns govern Merimee’s style in “Mateo Falcone.” The first is geographical and ethnological verisimilitude; the second…

Mateo Falcone – Themes

Posted on January 7, 2021January 7, 2021 by JL Admin

Culture Clash  “Mateo Falcone” concerns the cultural clash between savagery and civilization. The French, in particular, developed these themes, beginning with the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose Essay on the Origin of Inequality Among Men (1854) presented the notion that primitive people were uniquely free and true to themselves in their existence, while civilized people,…

Mateo Falcone – Characters

Posted on January 7, 2021January 7, 2021 by JL Admin

Fortunato Falcone  Fortunato Falcone is Mateo’s ten-year-old son. His father regards him as “the hope of the family.” The name Fortunato, meaning ”the Fortunato one,” reflects his father’s pride. Before the wounded Gianetto appears at the family home, Fortunato had been daydreaming about the meal that he is to eat with his wealthy uncle in…

Mateo Falcone – Summary

Posted on January 7, 2021January 7, 2021 by JL Admin

“Mateo Falcone” is set in Corsica in the seventeenth century in the region of Porto-Vecchio, which is midway between the town of Corte and the maquis, the wild country of the Corsican highlands where outlaws and misfits find refuge from law and authority. Mateo Falcone, a forty-eight-year-old father of three married daughters and one ten-year-old…

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