Alphonse Karr

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Alphonse Karr
Alphonse Karr, photograph by Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon around 1865

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (born November 24, 1808 in Paris , † September 29, 1890 in Saint-Raphaël ) was a French journalist, writer and satirist .

life and work

Karr's first novel Sous les Tilleuls ( Unter den Linden ) was published in 1832. Karr was one of the first to popularize the Normandy coast . He was particularly taken with Étretat , where his novel Le chemin le plus court ( The Shortest Path , 1837) also takes place.

Alphonse Karr founded the satirical magazine Les Guêpes ( The Wasps ), which appeared between 1839 and 1876. As a bitter opponent of Napoléon III. after the coup d'état of 1851 he went into exile in Nice . His work Les Willis (1835) was the model for Le Villi , Giacomo Puccini's first opera (1884). In 1882 Karr became the first incumbent president of the Ligue populaire contre la vivisection , founded by Marie-Françoise Bernard and Helena, Comtesse de Noailles , which campaigned against animal experiments .

Alphonse Karr spent his last years in Saint-Raphaël on the Côte d'Azur , where he devoted himself intensively to horticulture and the cultivation of flowers. Therefore, the establishment of the Flower Riviera is ascribed to him. He died there on September 29, 1890 at the age of almost 82. In his honor, two plants were posthumously named after him: the indoor bamboo "Bambus multiplex Alphonse Karr" and a pear .

Works

  • Fa dièzes. Roman , Ledoux, Paris 1834
  • Les Willis , 1835
  • Midi à 14 heures , Lange Lévy, Paris 1842
  • Une heure trop tard , Gosselin, Paris 1849
  • Voyage auteur de mon jardin , Slatkine, Paris 1979 (Repr. Of the Paris 1851 edition)
  • Journey around my garden: a novel in letters / Alphonse Karr; Translated from the French by Caroline Vollmann, Berlin: AB - Die Andere Bibliothek GmbH & Co. KG, May 2020, ISBN 978-3-8477-0425-6
  • Le chemin le plus court , Didier, Paris 1854
  • Agathe and Cécile . Lévy, Paris 1867
  • Sous les tilleuls , Lévy, Paris 1869
  • Sous les tilleuls  ; texts établi et présenté par Alex Lascar, Paris: Société des textes français modern, [2018], ISBN 978-2-86503-308-9
  • Le credo du jardinier , Lévy, Paris 1875
  • A bas les masques , Lévy, Paris 1883
  • Dieu et diable , Calmann Lévy, Paris 1898

literature

  • Charles-Armand Klein: Alphonse Karr, prince de l'esprit. Biography. Edition Cherche Midi, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-86274-344-5 .
  • Derek P. Scales: Alphonse Karr. Sa vie et son oeuvre. Droz, Geneva 1959.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manuela Jahrmärker: Themes, motifs and images of the romantic: on Italian music theater of the 19th century. LIT-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9224-7 , p. 149 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Karr, Alphonse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karr, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist, writer and satirist
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1890
Place of death Saint-Raphaël