The Three Musketeers - Lost in Adaptation

Me, chanting: BARBIE BARBIE BARBIE BARBIE

It's the 13th. The Dom corrected the mistake in the video.

Only 700 pages? Ha! Wait till you get to Journey to the West, my friend (hint: 2,000 PAGES). And I read all of it (it cost me a summer's worth of my social life, but I believe it was worth it)

Rachel Winship

I loved The Count of Monte Cristo, but reading this book made me hate The Three Musketeers. Douchetagnan is among the worst heroes I have ever had to read about.

See also Cyrano de Bergerac for another example of a Gascon character who is spontaneous and extremely entertaining to read about, but also stupid and a dick. It's a type in French literature

Ettore

The series ends with the triumph of Louis XIV and the death of the Musketeers because it signals the triumph of the centralised, absolutist French state. The nobility, already marginalised by Louis XIV would be eradicated by the Revolution.

Ettore

The dissonance is deliberate. Dumas believed that the xvii century was the last time before modern civilisation, symbolised by Richelieu who abolished feudalism and introduced many elements of modernity. So Dumas was describing a period that was completely amoral, but also spontaneous, in which everything was permitted and people lived by feeling and not calculation. It was already escapism and values dissonance in the nineteenth century, dominated by bourgeois respectability and rationality. It is lost in most adaptation that those novels were shocking at the time, like GRR Martin is today

Ettore

Putting in a correction for his majesty now.

Dominic Noble

I’m with Milady de Winter on attacking her rapist...I was cheering her on while you recounted the sordid affair. Good grief. I tried reading this book but like you Dom I found it too wordy and the main character to be annoying and insufferable. In the end I couldn’t read it. I much prefer the Count of Monte Cristo which I did read by Dumas. Slightly less values dissonance and much more compelling story to me.

It’s 13th. I know because The Man in the Iron Mask is about his son, Louis XIV (14). Also, fun fact for future pretentious, overly wordy writers— they were paid by the word, so they had every incentive to be as loquacious as possible.

Sam M the Demifemme

Is it Louis the 8th (VIII) or Louis the 13th (XIII)?

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