Échos de Victor Cherbuliez dans L’étrange petit comte de Max du Veuzit

Abstract

One of Victor Cherbuliez’s most renowned novels is Le comte Kostia, of 1863. Years later, in 1936, a sentimental woman writer, Max du Veuzit, publishes L’étrange petit comte ou L’étrange fils du comte d’Uskow, a title that prompts that of Cherbuliez. With the aim of verifying the exactitude of this supposition, our analysis will be supported by a comparative study, which will allow us to establish the analogies and differences between both novels, and will confirm our starting hypothesis: that Max du Veuzit’s novel is indeed inspired by Victor Cherbuliez’s storyline of Count Kostia.