Emmanuel Robles

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Emmanuel Roblès (born May 4, 1914 in Oran , Algeria , † February 22, 1995 in Boulogne-Billancourt , France ) was a French writer of Spanish origin who lived in Algeria for a long time as a so-called pied noir . His forty or so novels and dramas “draw on the existentialist philosophy that confronts people with a hopeless choice”.

Life

Roblès father, whose family comes from Spain, was a simple bricklayer. He died shortly before Roblès was born. This fatherlessness shaped the son's path in life. Thanks to a scholarship, Emmanuel was able to attend high school. He became a teacher and later a school director. In the 1930s he toured the Soviet Union and Asia. From 1937 he maintained a friendship with Camus . In the same year he began his military service. He was assigned to the Air Force, where he stayed for six years because the war broke out.

From 1943 Roblès worked as a war correspondent and journalist. Returned to Algiers in 1947, he founded the literary magazine Forge . He edited the Méditerranée series for the Éditions du Seuil . He also worked for Radio Algiers . 1955 filmed Luis Buñuel Roblès' novel Cela s'appelle l'aurore (1952). From 1956 the writer was a member of a committee that advocated the armistice in the Algerian war .

reception

Roblès made his debut in 1938 with the novel L'Action . In 1948 he received the Prix ​​Femina for his novel Les Hauteurs de la ville (On the heights of the city) . In 1950 he published a treatise on the Spanish playwright Federico García Lorca , which he also translated. In 1973 he was appointed to the renowned Académie Goncourt .

Roblès died in 1995 at the age of 80 where he lived near Paris. When you are dead, you are dead. You have to hurry to live , he had already stated decades ago as a reason for why he always preferred "strictly the earthly" to all metaphysics .

The City of Blois has awarded the Emmanuel-Roblès Prix since 1991 .

Works (selection)

Novellas
  • La mort en face .
    • German: Death before eyes. Three novels . European VA, Frankfurt / M. 1958 (translated by NO Scarpi )
  • The fortress . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1968 (translated by Ernst August Nicklas)
Novels
  • Cela s'Appelle l'Aurore . 1952.
    • German: It's called Dawn . European VA, Frankfurt / M. 1955 (translated by NO Scarpi)
  • Fédérica . 1954.
    • German: Federica . European VA, Frankfurt / M. 1955 (translated by Nino Erné ).
  • Le vésuve .
  • Les couteaux .
    • German: The knife . Desch, Munich 1968 (translated by NO Scarpi)
  • Les hauteurs de la ville .
  • La croisière .
    • German: The cruise . Bastei-Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1976, ISBN 3-404-05183-1 (EA Munich 1974, translated by Widukind Clerc-Erlé)
  • Season violente .
    • German: impetuous summer . Reclam, Leipzig 1977 (EA Munich 1975, translated by Evelyne Kolnberger )

literature

  • Fanny Landi-Bénos: Roblès ou les raisons de vivre . Oswald Éditions, Paris 1969.
  • Josette Frigiotti: Roblès dramaturge . Scène de France, Paris 1972.
  • Micheline Alice Rozier: Roblès ou la rupture du cercle (Études; 1). Editorial Naaman, Sherbrooke 1973.
  • Marie-Helene Chèze: Roblès, témoin de l'homme . Editorial Naaman, Sherbrooke 1979, ISBN 2-89040-024-7 .
  • C. Pascal: La femme dans l'ouvre de Roblès . In: Le Cerf-volant. Cahier littéraire , 110: 32-34 (1980).
  • Revue Celefan , May 1982, special issue about Roblès
  • Georges-Albert Astre: Roblès ou le risque de vivre . Grasset, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-246-33701-1 .
  • Claire Pascal-Brocardi: Un grand voyage . Cahiers de l'Aube, Montpellier 1986, ISBN 2-9501730-1-2
  • Guy Dugas (Ed.): Emmanuel Roblès et ses amis. Actes du colloque de Montpellier, 10 and 11 avril 1997 . PULM, Montpellier 2000, ISBN 2-84269-368-X .
  • Guy Dugas: Emmanuel Roblès. Une action, une œuvre . éditions du Tell, Algiers 2007, ISBN 9961-773-31-4 .
  • Guy Dugas (ed.): Emmanuel Roblès et l'Hispanité en Oranie. Actes du colloque d'Oran, 4 and 5 November 2008 . L'Harmattan, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-296-56853-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. Winfried Engler : Lexicon of French Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 388). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-520-38802-2 .
  2. Kindlers Literaturlexikon , Munich 1988 edition, cites Roblès' best-known drama Montserrat from 1948 as an example . The hero of the title captured by the Spanish occupiers of Venezuela has to choose between rescuing innocent people and loyalty to freedom fighter Simón Bolívar . He chooses fidelity. “Drastic depictions of sadistic atrocities, black and white painting, overdrawing of the characters and declamatory pathos, especially of the title character, impair the ethical mission of the play.” In artistic terms, Roblès could not hold a candle to his friend and role model Camus.
  3. Spiegel 38/1949 , accessed on May 3, 2012.
  4. Prix ​​Emmanuel Roblès ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 3, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / biblio.ville-blois.fr
  5. Contents: The fortress. - Winter is mild in Barcelona. - The robbery on the Levasseur bank.
  6. Contents: The fortress. - The messenger. - The Kabyle nightingale. - Man in April.
  7. Essay on the work of Emmanuel Roblès.

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