Adrien Bertrand
Adrien Bertrand (born August 4, 1888 in Nyons , † November 18, 1917 in Grasse ) was a French writer. In 1916 he received the Prix Goncourt for the novel L'appel du sol , which he was awarded for 1914.
Life
Bertrand attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and was a journalist in Paris, who wrote for Paris-Midi and L`Homme Libre and founded the literary magazine Les Chiméres . He was a socialist and pacifist and wrote surrealist poetry. When the First World War broke out, he volunteered, joined the cavalry and was so badly injured in the lungs by shrapnel that he died three years later. He began to write again in the hospitals he went to afterwards.
His widow left a foundation to the Académie Goncourt, with which poets are honored for their life's work (Bourse Goncourt / Adrien Bertrand). The prize was first awarded to Claude Roy in 1985 .
Literary work
The novel L'appel du sol is about a group of soldiers in the First World War who, like him, had terrible experiences in their first few weeks that they could not have imagined in civil life. Like his other books, it is anti-militarist.
Shortly before his death, he published a volume of short stories ( L'Orage sur le jardin de Candide ). One ( Carnet de campagne d'un soldat des armeés de la République ) is about a soldier of the Revolutionary Army and processes his own experiences, which he put back in time. Another is about a Roman soldier who wants to preach Christianity to Teutons, but only experiences war ( L'Illusion du préfet Mucius , inspired by a passage from Tacitus ). A third ( De la pluie qui surprit Candide en son jardin et d'un entretien qu'il eut avec plusieurs personnages ) depicts an imaginary meeting between Candide from Voltaire 's novel of the same name (whom Bertrand admired), Don Quichote, Faust and Mr. Pickwick and the main character from Bertrand's first novel about World War I. They discuss Bertrand's novel and a future after the war. The short story Les Animaux sous la tourmente is in the style of the fables of Jean de La Fontaine and criticizes the elitist attitude of some French intellectuals like Romain Rolland after Bertrand .
Before the war he published biographies on Eugène Brieux and Catulle Mendès .
Works
- Les soirs ardents , 1908 (poems)
- E. Brieux , 1910, Archives
- Catullus Mendès , 1908, Archives
- L'appel du sol , 1916, Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1935, Dijon 2014, archives
- La conquête de l'Autriche-Hongrie par l'Allemagne, une nouvelle forme du pangermanisme: le Zollverein , Paris 1916
- La victoire de Lorraine, carnet d'un officier de dragons , Paris, Nancy 1915, archives
- Les jardins de Priape , 1915 (poems)
- L'Orage sur le jardin de Candide 1917 (short stories), Archives
- Le Verger de Cypris , 1917 (poems), archives
Web links
- Information on Adrien Bertrand in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bertrand, Adrien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nyons |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1917 |
| Place of death | Grasse |