Anna de Noailles
Anna Élisabeth Bibesco de Brancovan, married. Comtesse de Noailles (born November 15, 1876 in Paris ; † April 30, 1933 there ) was a French writer of Romanian descent who was mainly active as a poet .
Life
Anna Élisabeth Bibesco de Brancovan was the daughter of the boyar Grigore Brâncoveanu (son of Prince Gheorghe Bibescu ) and the Greek-born Helena Ralouka Musuruş-Paşa.
Her great-grandfather, Stefan Vogorides ( Romanian: Ştefan Vogoride ), also called Stephaniki, Bei von Samos , was the deputy ruler ( Kaymakam ) of the Principality of Moldova , which was then under Turkish sovereignty, in 1821 , which in 1859 merged with the Principality of Wallachia to become a principality and later a kingdom Romania united.
Anna grew up in the lap of her traditionally Francophile family in Paris and was taught exclusively by governesses and tutors with the help of her father's library. She was often present in the drawing room her mother had in the Brancovan palace. At the age of 13 she was already writing passionate poetry.
In 1897 she married Mathieu Fernand Frédéric Pascal, Comte [Count] de Noailles (1873–1942), who came from an old nobility French family in Paris. The marriage, which all reports said was a happy one, had a son, Anne Jules (1900–1979).
At the age of 25, Anna de Noailles published the first of a long series of poetry volumes in 1901. The poet colleagues, above all Marcel Proust , but also the composer Reynaldo Hahn and the actress Sarah Bernhardt were entranced by the imagery and the expressiveness of the poems, which for today's readers, however, perhaps correspond too closely to the flowery style of the time.
The intellectual elite of her time, including Francis Jammes , Paul Claudel , Colette , André Gide , Frédéric Mistral , Robert de Montesquiou , Paul Valéry , Jean Cocteau , Alphonse Daudet , Pierre Loti and Max Jacob , soon frequented the literary salon of the beautiful Comtesse .
From the beginning of the 1920s she was increasingly confined to bed due to an insidious illness and had to radically reduce her social activities. However, her creative power remained unbroken until her death in April 1933. Anna Élisabeth, Comtesse de Noailles was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris . Her heart was buried in the small cemetery at Amphion-les-Bains .
Awards
- 1910 Literature Prize from the Académie Française
- 1921 Admission to the Académie Royale Belge de Langue et de Littérature Françaises
- 1921 member of the small Académie des Jeux Floraux de Toulouse
- 1931 Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur
Works (selection)
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literature
- Edmée de la Rochefoucauld: Anna De Noailles. French & European Publications, New York 1965; again 2004, ISBN 0-320-05590-6
- Fondation Singer-Polignac: Anna de Noailles. Méridiens Klincksieck, Paris 1986
- François Broche: Anna de Noailles. Robert Laffont, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-221-05682-5
- Angela Bargenda: La Poésie d'Anna de Noailles. L'Harmattan, Paris 1990, 2000 ISBN 273843682X
- Catherine Perry: Persephone Unbound: Dionysian Aesthetics in the Works of Anna de Noailles. Associated University Presses, New Jersey 2004, ISBN 0-8387-5499-6
- Maria Elena Galidescu: Exile Translation, "Scenes & Frames" - Language Change in Exile. Reflection on Romanian in international literature using the example of Noailles, Tzara , Eliade , Celan , in The Romanian and its Neighbors. Series: Forum Romania. Ed. Thede Kahl. Frank & Timme , 2009, pp. 245-278
Web links
- Anna de Noailles. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).
- Anna de Noailles: Petite introduction.
- The third miracle of France ( Memento of January 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 118 kB)
- De Noailles: The Queen of Paris , January 2, 2004 (accessed November 18, 2013)
- Anna-Elisabeth de Brancovan, comtesse Mathieu de Noailles (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ionescu, Ștefan; Panait, Panait I. (1969), Constantin Vodă Brîncoveanu: Viața. Domnia. Epoca , Bucharest: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, pp. 160–161
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Noailles, Anna de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Anna-Elisabeth de Brancovan; Bassaraba de Brancovan, Anna Elisabeth (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French poet and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1933 |
| Place of death | Paris |