Charles Dantzig

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Charles Dantzig (2011)

Charles Dantzig (born October 7, 1961 in Tarbes , Hautes-Pyrénées , France ) is a French author , poet and editor .

Life

Dantzig comes from a family of professors in medicine. After completing his Baccalauréat (Abitur), he studied law at the University of Toulouse . His doctoral thesis , which he submitted in Paris at the age of 28 , dealt with the " freedoms of the air ", the aviation rights of airlines .

His professional career began in 1995 at the Paris publishing house Les Belles Lettres , where he was responsible for the three book series Brique ( contemporary literature ), Eux & nous ( classical philology ) and Trésors de la Nouvelle (new publications). After translating works by Fitzgerald and Oscar Wilde himself, he was responsible for the first publication of a collection of poems by Francis Scott Fitzgerald . Under his leadership, the publisher was the first to publish the complete works of Marcel Schwob as well as anthologies with poems by the Symbolists , the Greek classics and Voltaire .

Dantzig published his first essays , poems and novels during this time . When he moved to the Paris publishing house Éditions Grasset in 2003, he became editor. In addition, he was in charge of the publisher's so-called Cahiers rouges (Rote Hefte). In this series, both classics such as Jean de La Ville Mirmont and Jean Desbordes , as well as authors of the 20th century such as Harold Nicolson , George Moore and Robert de Saint-Jean were published. The series also contained works previously unpublished in France, for example by Samuel Beckett , Bernard Frank (1929-2006) and Truman Capote . The Grasset publishing house also published some biographies under his leadership, for example by Irène Némirovsky , Pascal Jardin and Jules Michelet .

Awards and honors

Publications

Essays
  • 1990: Remy de Gourmont, Cher Vieux Daim! . Le Rocher, Paris.
  • 1995: Il n'y a pas d'Indochine . Les Belles Lettres, Paris.
  • 2005: Dictionnaire égoïste de la littérature française . Grasset and Le Livre de Poche, both Paris.
  • 2009: Encyclopédie capricieuse du tout et du rien . Grasset, Paris.
  • 2010: Pourquoi lire? Grasset, Paris.
  • 2013: À propos des chefs-d'œvres , Éditions Grasset, Paris, ISBN 978-2-246803966 .
Poems
  • 1995: Le chauffeur est toujours seul . La Différence.
  • 2001: À quoi servent les avions? . Les Belles Lettres, Paris.
  • 2003: En souvenir des long-courriers , Les Belles Lettres, Paris.
  • 2003: Bestiaire. With ink drawings by “Mino” , Les Belles Lettres, Paris, ISBN 2-251-44232-4 .
  • 2010: La diva aux longs cils . Grasset, Paris.
Novels
  • 1993: Confiture de crimes , Les Belles Lettres, Paris.
  • 2001: Nos vies hâtives . Grasset, Paris.
  • 2003: Un film d'amour . Grasset, Paris.
  • 2007: Je m'appelle François . Grasset, Paris.
  • 2011: Dans un avion pour Caracas . Grasset, Paris.
  • 2015: Histoire de l'amour et de la haine . Grasset, Paris.
Short stories
  • 2014: New York, Noir. Claude Blaizot, Paris.
Translations into the French language
  • 2010: Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Un légume . Grasset, Paris, Les Cahiers rouges collection .
  • 2010: Oscar Wilde: Aristote à l'heure du thé . Grasset, Paris, Les Cahiers rouges collection .
  • 2013: Oscar Wilde: L'importance d'être Constant , Grasset, Paris, Collection Les Cahiers rouges .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To contradict yourself. In: FAZ . January 31, 2012, p. 28.
personal data
SURNAME Dantzig, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French auror, poet and editor
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarbes , Hautes-Pyrenees department , France