Camille Lemonnier

Camille Lemonnier

Camille Lemonnier (born March 24, 1844 in Ixelles , † June 13, 1913 in Brussels ) was a Belgian narrator of naturalism .

Live and act

Camille Lemonnier studied law and, after successfully completing this, got a job with the government administration. During his studies he began to write literary texts and after a few years he quit his job to devote himself only to writing.

He was a member of the group “ La Jeune Belgique ”. His main fiction works include u. a. Happe-chair (1886) and Le Vent dans les moulins (1901); in his non-fiction books he sat a. a. with Gustave Courbet , Salon de Bruxelles and Claude Monet .

Works (selection)

Books for children and young readers

• Jack & Murph .
  • German: Jack and Murph (Koneges Children's Books; Vol. 14). Konegen, Vienna 1919.

Novels

• Un coin de village . 1879.
  • German: A corner of the village. Narration . Diederichs, Jena 1913.
• Un mâle . 1881.
  • German: wrong path of a love. Novel . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1971.
• Happe chair . 1886.
  • German: The iron Moloch. Novel . Publishing house Der Bücherkreis, Berlin 1928.
• L'homme en amour . 1897.
  • German: Love in people . From d. French v. Paul Adler, introduced by Stefan Zweig. (= Kulturhistorische Liebhaberbibliothek, 10.) Leipzig-Reudnitz: Hegner o. J. [1903].
• Le vent in the moulins . 1901.
  • German: There is a wind through the mills. Novel . Verlag der Bücherkreis, Berlin 1928.

Non-fiction

• Salon de Bruxelles . 1863.
• Nos Flamands . 1869.
• Paris - Berlin . 1870.
• G. Courbet et ses œuvres . 1878.
• Constantin Meunier . Sculpteur et peintre . Paris 1904.
• Les Charniers .
  • German: From the days of Sedan Juncker Verlag, Berlin 1921 (with a foreword by Bertha von Suttner )

literature

• Maurice Gauchez: Camille Lemonnier (Collection Nationale / 3rd Série; Vol. 29). ODP, Brussels 1943.
• Alexander Kiepert: Camille Lemonnier and his novels . Dissertation, University of Greifswald 1924.
• Maurice DesOmbiaux: Camille Lemonnier. Monograph anecdotique et documentaire ave une biblio-iconographie (Les écrivains français de Belgique; Vol. 2). Carrington Press, Brussels 1909.
• F. Russell Pope: Nature in the work of Camille Lemonnier (Belgian Series). University Press, New York 1933.
• Georges Rency: Camille Lemonnier. Essai de biographie critique . La vie intellectuelle, Brussels 1922.
• Gustave Vanwelkenhuyzen: Histoire d'un livre. Un mâle, de Georges Lemonnier . Académie Royale de langue et de littérature française, Brussels 1961.
• Benjamin M. Woodbridge: Le roman belge contemporain. Cinq romans flamands: Charles de Coster , Camille Lemonnier, Georges Eekhoud , Eugène Demolder , Georges Virrès . La renaissance du Livre, Brussels 1930.

Web links

• Literature by and about Camille Lemonnier in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Camille Lemonnier in the Gutenberg-DE project
• Literature by and about Camille Lemonnier in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)