Charles Plisnier

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Charles Plisnier (born December 13, 1896 in Ghlin near Mons ; † July 17, 1952 in Brussels ) was a French-speaking Belgian writer and politician.

Life

Charles Plisnier was born in Ghlin near Mons in 1896, the son of an industrialist . Shaped by the horrors of the First World War and the prevailing social injustice, he began to be interested in Marxism in his youth . After the war he studied law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles .

In 1919 he joined the communist wing of the Belgian Labor Party and in 1921 the Communist Party of Belgium . After receiving his doctorate, he worked as a lawyer at the Brussels Court of Appeal from 1922 , where he only defended workers. After he increasingly advocated Trotskyist ideas, such as the theory of permanent revolution , the Communist Party expelled him in 1928. Having been an atheist in the meantime , he has now developed into a staunch Christian.

After the Second World War he became more and more involved in the Flemish-Walloon conflict and initially spoke out in favor of the annexation of Wallonia to France , and later in favor of the federalization of Belgium. In 1949 he became the first president of the Federal Union of European Nationalities . In this function he advocated a Europe of regions as opposed to a Europe of nation states. In 1952 he died as a result of a surgical procedure.

Plisnier received the Prix ​​Goncourt in 1937 for his work Faux-passeports (German: false passports ) . That was the first time the award went to a non-French.

Works (selection)

Charles Plisniers gravestone
  • You should not desire . Stahlberg, Karlsruhe 1954.
  • Against the soul . Hallwag, Bern 1952.
  • The last day . Hallwag, Bern 1944.
  • Dormant embers . Hallwag, Bern 1943.
  • The Annequin family . Hallwag, Bern 1942.
  • Wrong passports . Hallwag, Bern 1941.
  • People . Hallwag, Bern 1941.

script

  • 1950: accuse me! ( Meurtres ) - with Fernandel

literature

  • Chantal Gerniers: Charles Plisnier, Victor Serge et Constant Malva . Lang, New York 1999, ISBN 0-8204-4134-1 .

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