Dieudonat

<p>Edmond Haraucourt’s Dieudonat (1906 exp. 1912) fits in the rich French tradition of the<em> contes merveilleux</em> by endowing its eponymous hero at birth with the supernatural ability to produce miracles. Upon adulthood Prince Dieudonat is forced to leave his kingdom and embarks on a quixotic picaresque and ultimately tragic journey. <strong><em>Dieudonat </em></strong>is  a work of such tremendous verve and ambition that it inevitably provokes admiration and if the nutritive value of some of the food for thought that it contains is a trifle suspect it is nevertheless a phenomenal feast. </p>