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ROSNY, JOSEPH HENRY

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 739 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROSNY, See also:JOSEPH See also:HENRY , a See also:pseudonym covering the collaboration of the See also:French novelists, Joseph See also:Henri Honore Boex, See also:born at See also:Brussels in 1856, and his See also:brother Seraphin See also:Justin See also:Francois Boex, born at Brussels in 1859. The novels of J. H. Rosny are full of scientific knowledge, of See also:astronomy, See also:anthropology, See also:zoology and, above all, See also:sociology. The stories are approached from the point of view of society rather than of the individual, but the characters, strongly individualized and intensely real, are only incidentally typical. The See also:elder Rosny was the See also:sole author of the earlier novels, and began novel-See also:writing as an avowed See also:disciple of See also:Zola. Nell See also:Horn, membre de 1'armee du salut (1885) is a picture of See also:London See also:life and social reform; Le Bilateral (1886) and Marc Fane (1888) describe the revolutionary and anarchist parties of See also:Paris; L'Immolation (1887) is a brutal See also:story of See also:peasant life; Le See also:Termite (189o) is a picture of See also:literary life in Paris; and Vamireh (1891), with Erymah (1895),and See also:Les Profondeurs de Kyamo (See also:short stories, 1896) and others See also:deal with prehistoric See also:man. MM. Rosny were among the writers who in 1887 entered a formal protest in the See also:Figaro against Zola's La Terre, and they were designated by Edmond de See also:Goncourt as See also:original members of his See also:academy. Among their later novels the more famous are: See also:Daniel Valgraive (1891), a study in the possibilities of See also:personal See also:sacrifice; L'Imperieuse Bonte (1894), an See also:indictment of Parisian charity; L'Indomptee (1895), the See also:history of a girl medical student in Paris; Le Serment (1896, dramatized 1897); Les See also:Ames perdues (1899), another anarchist novel; La Charpente (1900); Therese Degaudy (1902); Le See also:Crime du docteur (1903); Le Docteur Harambur (1904); Le Millionaire (1905); and Sous le fardeau (1906).

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