Charles Du Bos

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Charles Du Bos

Charles Du Bos (born October 27, 1882 in Paris , † August 5, 1939 in La Celle-Saint-Cloud near Versailles ) was a French writer and literary critic .

Du Bos was friends with André Gide and Ernst Robert Curtius .

Du Bos took over from Henri Bergson a sensitive aestheticism that seeks to understand the work of art from the inwardness of the writer. In this way he approached the poets until the new creation.

Works

  • Notes sur Mérimée 1921
  • Approximations 7 vol. 1922-37
    • in selection: The way to Goethe . 1949
  • The dialogue with André Gide. 1929
    • Dialogue with André Gide 1961
  • François Mauriac and the problem of romance catholique. 1933
  • Qu'est-ce que la littérature? 1938
  • Journal. 9 vols. 1946–1961
  • Encounter with Rainer Maria Rilke , in: Lancelot. The messenger from France. Monthly. G. Lingenbrink, Rastatt 1947, pp. 58-62

literature

  • Michael Einfalt: You Bos - Gide. Satan and literature. In: Nation, God and Modernity: Limits to literary autonomy in France 1919-1929. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2001 ISBN 3484550368 pp. 259-314
  • Raimund Theis : In search of the best France. On the correspondence between Ernst Robert Curtius and André Gide and Charles du Bos . Klostermann, Frankfurt 1984 ISBN 3-465-01611-4

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notes

  1. Excerpt from his diary of January 30, 1925, i.e. published posthumously. Du Bos got to know Rilke better in the penultimate year of his life. Orig .: "Extraits d'un journal, 1908 - 1928"