Charles Asselineau
François-Alexandre-Charles Asselineau (born March 13, 1820 in Paris ; died July 25, 1874 in Châtel-Guyon ) was a French writer , art and literary historian .
Life
Asselineau graduated from the Lycée Condorcet and befriended Nadar there . Like him, he began studying medicine, but soon turned to literature. In 1859 he was librarian of Mazarin - Library , which later became the National Library in Paris. He published his articles in liberal literary and art magazines and newspapers, and wrote archaeological and literary monographs. In 1845 he met Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) and became his loyal friend for life. He supported him with the first publication of Les Fleurs du Mal in 1857 and published the third edition together with Théodore de Banville in 1868, after both of them had been commissioned by Baudelaire's mother, Caroline Aupick, to publish the complete works of their son. In 1869 he wrote the first biography of Baudelaire: Charles Baudelaire, sa vie et son œuvre ( Charles Baudelaire, his life and work ).
His story L'enfer du bibliophile (Eng. Bibliomaniac's Hell ), published in 1860, culminates in such sentences that personify the book as:
“Ô charming petit livre! disais-je; petite Manon Lescaut , si bien imprimée par Didot in 1797! Béni soit l'amateur qui t'a si bien conservée, lavée, encollée et habillée de maroquin puce; béni soit le relieur qui t'a reliée, le laveur qui t'a lavée, l'encolleur qui t'a encollée.
Free German translation: " Oh, you charming little book!" I said, "You little Manon Lescaut , so beautifully printed by Didot in 1797! Praise be to the lover who has kept you so well, washed, glued and clad in brown Moroccan ; blessed be the bookbinder who bound you Washer who washed you, the person who glued you. ""
Works
- J. de Schelandre (1854)
- André Boulle, ébéniste de Louis XIV (1854)
- Les albums et les autographes (1855)
- Histoire du sonnet pour servir à l'histoire de la poésie française (1855)
- La double vie (1858)
- L'enfer du bibliophile (1860) ( digitized version )
- Le Paradis des gens de lettres (1862) ( digitized version )
- Mélanges tirés d'une petite bibliothèque romantique (1866)
- Charles Baudelaire (1869) ( digitized )
- L'Italie et Constantinople (1869)
- André Boulle, ébéniste de Louis XIV (1872)
- Bibliography romantique (1872)
- Les Sept péchés capitaux de la littérature (1872) ( digitized version )
See also
literature
- Jacques Crépet and Claude Pichois , Baudelaire et Asselineau, textes recueillis et commentés. Nizet, 1953
- Hans Marquardt (eds.): Nodier , Flaubert , Asselineau: book madness. Three stories. With brush drawings by Josef Hegenbarth . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1976 (contains the three stories Der Bibliomane (Charles Nodier), Bücherwahn (Gustave Flaubert) and Die Hell des Bibliomanen (Charles Asselineau))
- Georg Ruppelt : Selected items by Georg Ruppelt: From the years 2009 to 2015. Wiesbaden 2015 ( partial online view )
Web links
References and footnotes
- ^ For example, in the anthology, Bücherwahn , edited by Hans Marquardt , in which the story by Erwin Riegers is translated.
- ↑ Chapter 10 at Wikisource (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Asselineau, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Asselineau, Charles François |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer, art and literary historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 25, 1874 |
| Place of death | Châtel-Guyon |