Émile Masson (writer)

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Émile Masson (born July 18, 1869 in Brest , † February 9, 1923 in Paris ) was a Breton anarcho-socialist writer and thinker. He is also known by the pseudonyms Brenn (1869-1923), Erwan Gwesnou (1869-1923) and Ion Prigent (1869-1923).

biography

Born in Brest, he did not grow up speaking Breton, but acquired the language later in life. He received two degrees (philosophy and English) and moved to Paris. He was associated with several radical movements of the time: Dreyfus Affair , anarchism , collectivism , anti-militarism . At this time he became friends with Élisée Reclus , Kropotkin and Romain Rolland . He attended the universitaire populaires (1899-1905). On his return to Brittany , he became a teacher in English at the Pontivy high school . He translated numerous works by Thomas Carlyle into French.

In 1911 he became vice president of the literary section of the Breton Regionalist Union . In the same year he was one of the founders of the Breton Nationalist Party and editor of the magazine Breiz Dishual ("Free Brittany"). In 1913 he was the founder of the Brug magazine , an anarchist magazine in the Breton language. At that time he defined himself as a libertarian socialist. A keen internationalist, he tried to reconcile this aspect of his thinking with his Breton nationalism.

Publications

  • Yves Madec, professeur de collège , 1905
  • Brenn (pseudonym of Emile Masson), Les rebelles , Librairie les pages libres, 1908
  • Les Bretons et le Socialisme , Éditions Toullec et Geffroy 1912, introduction and comments by Jean-Yves Guiomar, Paris, Maspero, 1972.
  • Les hommes illustres et leurs paroles inouïes , 1919
  • L'Utopie des îles bienheureuses dans le Pacifique . Editions Rieder 1921, Editions Caligrammes, 1984.

bibliography

  • Giraud, J. Didier .: Emile Masson, professeur de liberté . Editions Canope, 1991, OCLC 680006278 .
  • Giraud, J. Didier., Giraud, Marielle .: Emile Masson: prophète et rebelle: colloque international de Pontivy, 26, 27 and 28 September 2003 . Presses universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2005, ISBN 2-7535-0058-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Masson, Emile .: Emile Masson. [Textes choisis]. Les Bretons et le socialisme. F. Maspero, 1972, OCLC 26898326 .
personal data
SURNAME Masson, Émile
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brenn (pseudonym); Gwesnou, Erwan (pseudonym); Prigent, Ion (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Breton anarcho-socialist writer and thinker
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Brest
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1923
Place of death Paris