Charles Grivel

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Charles Grivel (born December 18, 1936 in Geneva , Switzerland, † May 14, 2015 in Férolles-Attilly , France) was a Swiss Romance scholar , French scholar , literary scholar and university professor .

Life

Charles Marcel Grivel was the son of a French mother and a Swiss father; he had two nationalities. He “graduated from the Collège Calvin and then studied until his licentiate with the famous literary scholars of the Geneva School, who made a major contribution to opening up a view of literature frozen in positivism: Marcel Raymond, Jean Rousset and Jean Starobinski."

Charles Grivel was last married to Adeline Trombert-Grivel. He died in May 2015 after a serious illness.

academic career

Grivel studied French philology ("Lettres") and philosophy at the University of Geneva and cultural anthropology at the University of Dakar ( Senegal ). From 1961 to 1963 he was a French lecturer at the University of Giessen and then from 1963 to 1975 he was assistant and lecturer at the French department of the Free University of Amsterdam . He completed his habilitation in 1973 at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Leiden: “Even his 1973 habilitation thesis, Production de l'intérêt romanesque , made people sit up and take notice. This project no longer inscribed itself in traditional literary hermeneutics, which was based on an unquestioned pre-scientific self-stylization and reduced literature to canonized works by canonized authors. "

In addition to publications on the novel ( Production de l'intérêt romanesque , Mouton, 1973), on the fantastic ( Fantastique-Fiction , Presses universitaires de France, 1992, Dracula Cahiers de l'Herne, 1997) and popular literature (Dumas, Féval, Leroux) Grivel dealt with the phenomenon of the fin-de-siècle ( Jarry: Tout Ubu , Le Livre de poche, 2000, Villiers, Lorrain, Rachilde, les Goncourt), the surrealists and avant-gardes (Breton, Aragon, Rigaut, Soupault, Max Ernst ) as well as contemporary literature (Cendrars, Bousquet, Ollier, Pirotte).

From 1975 to 1981 he was a lecturer and professor at the Institute for Romance Studies at the University of Groningen , from 1981 to 2002 he taught Romance Philology at the University of Mannheim as a professor of French literature (focus on the 19th and 20th centuries) and media studies (history of books and illustration, image theory, genealogy of photography). He was also visiting professor at the Universities of Konstanz and Bochum (Germany), La Jolla (USA), Chicoutimi and Montreal (Canada), Salzburg and Klagenfurt (Austria), São Paulo (Brazil), Lisbon (Portugal), San José (Costa Rica) ), Paris III and Paris VII (France).

Charles Grivel was also active as a writer.

In addition to literature, Grivel also explored other symbolic forms of representation in a larger media context, with a focus on the text-image relationship, with the focus on questions about the illustrated book after the industrial revolution, the book as a medium and the photographically illustrated book: Le Passage à l'écran. Littératures des hybrides (2000) focuses on the problem of the illustrated book, Le Roman mis à nu par la photographie (1999) deals with photographic illustration and D'un écran automobile (1999) focuses on cinematographic intermediality. Grivel wrote "about the new forms of reproduction that use apparatus and machines such as photography, radio or phonograph, which create new symbolic goods and, despite machine reproduction, also create new types of symbols". He manifested his creativity with the establishment of a media focus with the main accent photography. With contemporary photography, Stella sits down - in the name of heaven. Photography according to Alain Fleischer (and some precursors) (1999) as well as Hors-ville, Nonville. (Une enquête sur le terrain photographique) (1997).

Charles Grivel was u. a. President of the “Association des Amis du Roman populaire” (1993–1999). Vice-President of the “Société des Amis des Frères Goncourt” (2001–2015) and the German Association of Franco-Romanists (1999–2002), member of the Conseil d'administration de la Société des Études romantiques et dix-neuviémistes (2000–2009), member of the Société française de photographie and officer in the Ordre des Palmes académiques (1995).

literature

  • Bibliography of Charles Grivel's publications
  • Charles Grivel: Entre deux langues , in: Kai Nonnenmacher (Ed.): Romance Studies , No. 2 (2015), pp. 343–352, online , first published in: Romance Studies as Passion. Great moments in recent specialist history II , ed. by Klaus-Dieter Ertler, History of Romance Studies 2 (Vienna / Berlin: LIT-Verlag, 2011), 131–144.
  • Joseph Jurt: Speech at the farewell ceremony for Charles Grivel at the University of Mannheim, July 12, 2002 , in: Kai Nonnenmacher (Ed.): Romanische Studien , Nr. 2 (2015), pp. 343–352, online
  • Hubertus von Amelunxen, Vittoria Borsò, Joseph Jurt, Georg Maag, Jürgen E. Müller, Beate Ochsner: Charles Grivel: Une vie (de) littéraire , in: Tagungsreader des XXXIV. Romance Day , Mannheim 26. – 29. July 2015, ed. by Eva-Martha Eckkrammer, pp. 18–22.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Marcel Grivel. Société Genevoise de Généalogie [accessed June 24, 2016].
  2. ↑ a b c Joseph Jurt: Speech at the farewell ceremony for Charles Grivel at the University of Mannheim, July 12, 2002 , in: Kai Nonnenmacher (Ed.): Romanische Studien , Nr. 2 (2015), pp. 343–352, online
  3. ↑ Extract from Production de l'intérêt romanesque (1973)
  4. ↑ Interview : "Open your eye ..." Charles Grivel in conversation with Daniel Wagner and Jöran Herr, Weimar, June 10, 1998
personal data
SURNAME Grivel, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grivel, Charles Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Romance studies, French studies, literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 2015
Place of death Férolles-Attilly , France