Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

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Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (born November 2, 1808 in Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte ( Département Manche ), † April 23, 1889 in Paris ) was a French writer and moralist.

Life

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly worked as a literary and cultural critic for various conservative newspapers and was often seen as the forerunner of François Mauriac and Georges Bernanos in the 20th century . He was a monarchist and a staunch Catholic . His works are particularly strong where he characterizes passionate sinners . For this he used a visionary, metaphor-rich language. Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly sharply criticized the developments of the modern age and repeatedly turned against literary realism , although he practiced it.

Paul Bourget describes him as a dreamer with an excellent sense of vision, who sought and found protection from the different world of those days in his work. Jules Lemaître , a less well-meaning critic, found an exaggerated reference to Lord Byron in the extraordinary crimes of his heroes, his reactionary views, and his dandyism and snobbery . In 1867 he met Léon Bloy , who became his secretary.

He was buried in the Montparnasse cemetery until his bones were transferred to the cemetery in his hometown in Normandy in 1926.

Barbey d'Aurevilly is an extraordinary example of the eccentricity of which the Romantics were capable; reading it is one way of understanding the resentment that befell him. He gave himself a touch of the aristocracy and veiled his past, although his ancestry was middle class and he grew up well protected.

Works (selection)

"Le diable dupé par les femmes", illustration for Les Diaboliques (etching by Felicien Rops )
Letters
  • Lettres de Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly à Léon Bloy . Mercure de France, Paris 1902.
prose
  • The old mistress ("Une Vieille Maîtresse"). Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-88221-703-2 (former title Eine alte Geliebte ).
  • A woman's vengeance (“La vengeance d'une femme”). Scherz Verlag, Bern 1953.
  • The Hexed ("L'Ensorcelée"). Paris 1854.
  • Le Chevalier Des Touches . LGF, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-253-05266-3 . (Reprint of the Paris 1864 edition)
  • Diabolic stories ("Les Diaboliques"). Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-8218-4400-0 , series Die Other Bibliothek . (Cycle of novels in 4 volumes, earlier titles Teufelskinder , Die Teuflischen or Diabolic stories )
    • Diabolical stories. Audio book . Grosser & Stein, Pforzheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-86735-215-4 . (4 CDs, read by Christian Rode)
  • Against Goethe. ("Contre Goethe"). Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-88221-869-X .
  • About dandyism. ("You Dandysme"). Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-88221-878-9 .
  • Delicacy of mind comes from wickedness. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-88221-702-5 . ( Aphorisms )
Work edition
  • Selected essays in individual volumes Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2006–2014.
  1. Freedom of spirit comes from wickedness . 2008, ISBN 978-3-88221-702-5 . (with essays by Anatole France and Paul Bourget )
  2. About dandyism and about Beau Brummel . 2006, ISBN 3-88221-878-9 .
  3. Against Goethe . 2006, ISBN 3-88221-869-X .
  4. The old maitresse ("Une vieille maïtresse"). 2008, ISBN 978-3-88221-703-2 .
  5. The Chevalier of the Touch . Translated by Caroline Vollmann and Gernot Krämer. 2014, ISBN 978-3-88221-622-6 .

Adaptations

theatre
  • Patrick Courtois: La vengeance d'une femme. 2004.
Movie

literature

  • Philippe Berthier: Barbey d'Aurevilly et la modernité . Champion, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-7453-2013-1 .
  • Jean Canu: Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly . Robert Laffont, Paris 1945.
  • Catherine Boschian-Campaner, Barbey d'Aurevilly , Paris, Seguier, 1989, ISBN 2-87736-027-X .
  • Christina Lécureur: Barber d'Aurevilly. L'ensorcelé du cotentin . Editions Moyellan, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-35074-089-8 .
  • Michel Lécureur: Barbey d'Aurevilly. Le Sagittaire Fayard, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-213-63325-1 .
  • Marie-François Melmoux-Montaubin: Barbey D'Aurevilly . Memini, Paris 2001, ISBN 88-86609-32-9 .
  • Susanne Rossbach: The dandy's word as a weapon. Dandyism, narrative texting strategies and gender difference in the work of Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly . Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-484-55038-4 .
  • François Taillandier: Un réfractaire - Barbey d'Aurevilly . Bartillat, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-84100-441-6 .
  • Jean-Pierre Thiollet : Barbey d'Aurevilly ou le triomphe de l'écriture. Pour une nouvelle lecture de “Un prêtre marié”. (= Écrivains & Normandy. 2). H & D Editions, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-914266-06-5 .
  • Jean-Pierre Thiollet: Carré d'Art. Barbey d'Aurevilly, Lord Byron , Salvador Dalí , Jean-Edern Hallier . Anagrams éditions, Croissy-sur-Seine 2008, ISBN 978-2-35035-189-6 .

Web links

Wikisource: Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly  - sources and full texts (French)
Commons : Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ the first edition was attacked in 1851 because of the immorality it contained
  2. ^ A novel about rebellious royalists protesting against the first republic among the Norman farm workers
  3. ↑ first edition from 1874; a collection of short stories, each telling the story of a woman who committed acts of violence, crimes, or revenge
personal data
SURNAME Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules Amédée
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Sauveur-le-Viscount
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1889
Place of death Paris