Charles-Albert Cingria

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Charles-Albert Cingria (born February 10, 1883 in Geneva ; † August 1, 1954 there ) was a Swiss writer who emerged as one of the most important cultural critics of French-speaking Switzerland .

biography

The family of Charles-Albert Cingria's father came from Ragusa (now Dubrovnik ) and lived in Constantinople , his mother was of Polish-French descent. His older brother Alexandre Cingria (1879–1945) was a painter and glass painter .

Charles-Albert Cingria attended high schools at Saint-Maurice Abbey and Engelberg Abbey , but without attaining a degree. He then studied music in Geneva and Rome and graduated with an organist diploma. From 1902 to 1909 he toured Switzerland, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Africa and Turkey.

In 1915, Cingria established itself in Paris. The Second World War forced him to return to Switzerland, where he lived in a servants' room in Friborg after stints in Lausanne and Geneva.

During this involuntary Swiss stay, Cingria roamed Switzerland by bike and financed his life badly by writing articles and giving lectures for various organs of the local press. In 1944 he returned to France. Subsequently he lived alternately in Paris, Switzerland and Aix-en-Provence .

In 1954, Cingria was transferred from Provence to a Geneva hospital on an emergency basis, where he died on August 1 of the same year.

Charles-Albert Cingria's estate is in Lausanne in the Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire and in the Center de recherches sur les lettres romandes .

Henry Miller wrote of him: “I was very fortunate to spend a whole afternoon and evening in Cingria's company. I count these few short hours among the great events of my life. "

Works

  • A propos de la langue esperanto, dite langue universelle. Edition de la Voile latine.
  • Anthologie de Charles-Albert Cingria. L'Escampette éditions, Bordeaux 1995, ISBN 2-909428-30-3 .
  • Les autobiographies de Brunon Pomposo. Editions L'Age d'homme, Lausanne 1997, ISBN 2-8251-0856-1 .
  • Bois sec, bois vert Gallimard, Paris 1983, ISBN 2-07-028046-2 .
  • Le carnet du chat sauvage. Edition Fata Morgana, St.-Clément-de-Rivière 2001, ISBN 2-85194-533-5 .
  • Florides helvètes et autres textes. Editions L'Age d'homme, Lausanne 1997.
  • La fourmi rouge et autres textes. Editions L'Age d'homme, Lausanne 1995
  • Geography vraie. Editions Fata Morgana, St-Clément-de-Rivière 2003, ISBN 2-85194-597-1 .
  • La grande ourse. Gallimard, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-07-075874-5 .
  • Lettre au verificateur des eaux. Chroniques. Editions de La Différence, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-7291-1086-0 .
  • Lettres de Charles-Albert Cingria à Sven Stelling-Michaud. Editions L'Age d'homme, Lausanne 2001, ISBN 2-8251-1321-2 .
  • Nouvelles correspondances de Charles-Albert Cingria. Editions L'Age d'homme, Lausanne 2001.
  • Le parcours du Haut Rhône, ou, La julienne et l'ail sauvage. Textes et croquis pris on the route. Editions VP, Paris 1997 (together with Paul Monnier ).
  • Pendeloques alpestres. Editions Zoé, Geneva 2001, ISBN 2-88182-435-8 .
  • Petites feuilles. Editions L'Age d'homme, Lausanne 1997, ISBN 2-8251-1078-7 .
  • Pétrarque. Editions L'Age d'homme, Lausanne 2003, ISBN 2-8251-1820-6 .
  • Portraits. Editions L'Age d'homme, Lausanne 1994, ISBN 2-8251-0554-6 .
  • Propos animaliers. Editions L'Age d'homme, Lausanne 2004, ISBN 2-8251-1915-6 .
  • La pure Berthe. Editions L'Age d'homme, Lausanne 1992, ISBN 2-8251-0347-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henry Miller: Big Sur and the oranges of Hieronymus Bosch. Hamburg 1966, ISBN 978-3-499-10849-5 , p. 43.
personal data
SURNAME Cingria, Charles-Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1954
Place of death Geneva