Charles Mauron

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Charles Mauron (* 1899 in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence ; † 1966 there ) was a French poet, translator, literary critic, English and Romance studies .

life and work

Mauron had to give up studying chemistry for health reasons and turned to literary criticism. He had early contact with the Bloomsbury Group , which valued him very much, and translated some of their books into French ( EM Forster 1927, Virginia Woolf 1931, 1935, Katherine Mansfield 1939; he also translated Israel Zangwill 1928, DH Lawrence 1932, TE Lawrence 1936, 1937, Leonard Woolley 1937 and Lawrence Sterne ). Two of his own early texts were translated into English by his friend Roger Fry and were published by Bloomsbury Group in 1927 and 1925. (The first book by his wife Marie Mauron was also first published in English translation in 1934, by FL Lucas 1894–1967, who was close to the group.)

Mauron developed a literary criticism on a psychoanalytic basis, in which the study of metaphors plays a major role. He received his doctorate in 1954 in Aix-en-Provence with the work L'inconscient dans l'oeuvre et la vie de Racine (Gap 1957, 1965, 1969, Geneva 1986) and completed his habilitation in Paris in 1963 with the two Thèses Des métaphores obsédantes au mythe personnel. Introduction à la psychocritique (Paris 1963, 1988; Italian Milan 1966, 1976) and Psychocritique du genre comique. Aristophane. Plaute. Térence. Molière (Paris 1964, 1985; Spanish Madrid 1997; Japanese).

Works

  • The nature of beauty in art and literature , London 1927 (translated into English by Roger Fry )
  • Poèmes en prose , Argenteuil 1930
  • Aesthetics and psychology , London 1935, Port Washington 1970 (translated into English by Roger Fry)
  • Mallarmé l'obscur , Paris 1941, Geneva 1986
  • Sagesse de l'eau , Marseille 1945
  • L'Homme triple. Essais , Paris 1947
  • Introduction à la psychanalyse de Mallarmé , Paris 1950, 1968, 1978 (English Berkeley 1963)
  • Mallarmé par lui-même , Paris 1964, 1990
  • Le dernier Baudelaire , Paris 1966, 1986 (also Japanese)
  • "Phèdre" , Paris 1968
  • Le theater de Giraudoux. Etude psychocritique , Paris 1971, 2002
  • Van Gogh. Etudes psychocritiques , ed. by Claude Mauron, Paris 1976
  • Études mistraliennes et autres études psychocritiques , ed. by Claude Mouron, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence 1989
  • Poèmes français et provençaux. Evocations , Saint-Rémy-de-Provence 2005

literature

  • Homage to Charles Mauron 1899-1966 , Saint-Rémy-de-Provence 1967
  • Linda Hutcheon, Formalism and the Freudian aesthetic. The example of Charles Mauron , Cambridge 1984
  • Mary Ann Caws and Sarah Bird Wright, Bloomsbury and France. Art and Friends , Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

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personal data
SURNAME Mauron, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French poet, translator, literary critic, English and Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
DATE OF DEATH 1966
Place of death Saint-Rémy-de-Provence