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
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Approximations 7 vol. 1922-37
- in selection: The way to Goethe . 1949
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The dialogue with André Gide. 1929
- Dialogue with André Gide 1961
- François Mauriac and the problem of romance catholique. 1933
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Qu'est-ce que la littérature? 1938
- What is poetry? Herder Verlag , Freiburg 1949
- 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
Web links
- Literature by and about Charles Du Bos in the catalog of the German National Library
notes
- ↑ 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"
personal data | |
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SURNAME | You Bos, Charles |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer and literary critic |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1882 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
DATE OF DEATH | August 5, 1939 |
Place of death | La Celle-Saint-Cloud |