André Chamson

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André Chamson (born June 6, 1900 in Nîmes , † November 9, 1983 in Paris ) was a French writer, publicist and archivist. During the occupation (Hitler) he fought underground. In addition to numerous novels, he wrote several volumes with political or philosophical essays. Chamson is characterized by his connection between regional issues and social criticism.

Life

The southern French grew up in Le Vigan in the Cevennes , which are also the preferred setting for his stories. He will present their population, ennobled by hard work, as an example for the European people. After the Lyceums in Alès and Montpellier , Chamson studied history, palaeography (knowledge of the ancient world) and art history in Paris. Initially active in the local national library, from 1924 he was secretary of a state commission for art education, from 1933 curator and curator at the museums of the palaces of Versailles and Trianon . In 1934 the avowed Protestant and anti-fascist was appointed to Daladier's brief cabinet . From 1935 he headed the weekly Vendredi (Freitag), which he himself co-founded , which also takes anti-fascist positions, but only exists until 1938. Chamson also supports Republican Spain. He initially participated in World War II as a captain. Then he looks after the art treasures evacuated from the Louvre to southern France . He does illegal work for the Resistance . After the liberation, he resumed his work as a curator, and he was also involved in the literary magazine Europa . He advocates the Soviet Union with critical sympathy. From 1959 to 1971 he was an archivist at the State Archives. In his novels, Chamson has dealt with the disorder of history, which would destroy so many existences, writes Engler. André Chamson has been a member of the Académie française since 1956 . Schools are named after him in Le Vigan, Montpellier and Meyrueis . In 1954 he became a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

Works

  • Attitudes , 1923
  • Roux le Bandit , Roman, 1925, German ... who didn't go with the others , Hamburg 1949
  • L'Homme contre l'Histoire , Essays, 1927
  • Les Hommes de la route , Roman, 1927, also Bamberg 1933
  • Le Crime des Justes , novel, 1928 (The Crime of the Just)
  • Taboos. La fête et le char , 1928
  • Clio, ou l'Histoire sans les Historiens , 1929
  • Tyrol , Essays, 1930
  • L'Aigoual , 1930
  • Histoire de Magali , 1930
  • Histoires de Tabusse , 1930
  • Li Nivo éron si compagno. Compagnons de la Nuée , 1930
  • La Révolution de dix-neuf, suivi de: Esquisse d'une théorie de l'immunité , 1930
  • Affirmations sur Mistral , 1931
  • Héritages , novel, 1932
  • L'Auberge de l'abîme , Roman, 1933, German Die Herberge in den Cevennes , Leipzig 1934, Munich 1954
  • L'Année des vaincus , 1934
  • Les Quatre Éléments , novel, 1935
  • Retour d'Espagne , 1937
  • La Galère , Essays, 1939
  • Quatre mois, carnet d'un officier de liaison , 1940
  • Écrit en 1940 , 1944
  • Le Puits des miracles , Roman, 1945, German Der Wunderbrunnen , Potsdam 1950
  • Le Dernier Village , novel, 1946
  • Écrit en 1944 , 1947
  • Fragments d'un liber veritatis 1941–1942 , Essays, 1947
  • La Peinture française au Musée du Louvre , 1948
  • Si la parole a quelque pouvoir, discours et articles de revues 1945–1947 , 1948
  • L'Homme qui marchait devant moi , novel, 1948
  • Le Garçon, la Fille et la Bête , 1951
  • La Neige et la Fleur , Roman, 1951, German bloom under snow , Stuttgart 1953
  • On ne voit pas les cœurs, quatre actes , 1952
  • La fin de “Greenville” , 1953
  • Le Chiffre de nos jours , Roman, 1954
  • L'École de tout le monde , 1954
  • Courbet , 1955, German: Gustave Courbet. 1819–1877 , Kurt Desch publishing house, Munich / Vienna / Basel 1956
  • Le drame de Vincennes . Bernard Grasset Éditeur, Paris 1955.
  • Adeline Venician , Roman, 1956, German Stuttgart 1957
  • Nos ancêtres, les Gaulois , 1958
  • Bergwasser , Zurich 1961
  • Devenir ce qu'on est , 1961
  • Le rendez-vous des espérances , 1961
  • Comme une pierre qui tombe , novel, 1964
  • La Petite Odyssée , novel, 1965
  • La Superbe , Roman, 1967
  • Suite cévenole , 1968
  • Suite pathétique , 1969
  • La Tour de Constance , novel, 1971
  • Les Taillons ou la Terreur blanche , 1974
  • La Reconquete. 1944-1945 . Plon, Paris 1975
  • Sans peur , Roman, 1977
  • Castanet, le camisard de l'Aigoual , 1979
  • Catinat, gardian de Camargue , 1982
  • Il faut vivre vieux , 1984

literature

  • Lotte Krug: The image of man in the novels and short stories by André Chamson , Göttingen 1948
  • Ernst Bendz: Chamson. Un aspect récent de son ouvre , 1952
  • Germaine Castel: Camson et l'histoire , Aix-en-Provence 1980
  • Peter D. Tame: André Chamson. A critical biography , USA 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ So Winfried Engler : Lexicon of French Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 388). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-520-38802-2 .
  2. ↑ According to Ilja Ehrenburg (in his memoir Menschen - Jahre - Leben , Munich 1962/65, Volume II 1923–1941, page 370), the "radical socialist" Chamson (like Ehrenburg himself) was one of the organizers of a large anti-fascist writers' congress, the Met in Paris in 1935
  3. ↑ See also The French "Friday" - the short history of the "Vendredi" ( Memento of June 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 19, 2010
  4. ↑ See article on Friedmann
  5. ↑ Stuttgart 1984
  6. ↑ See advertisement ( Memento from May 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 19, 2011
  7. ↑ See for example Cité Scolaire A. Chamson ( Memento of April 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 19, 2010
  8. ^ Entry at the German Academy for Language and Poetry, accessed on October 27, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Chamson, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer, publicist and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Nîmes
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1983
Place of death Paris