Frédéric Boutet

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Frédéric Boutet (born November 5, 1874 in Bourges , Cher department , France ; † January 31, 1941 in Arcachon , Gironde department , France) is a French author .

Life

Boutet's father developed the planning for a suspension bridge over the English Channel in 1870 , which was not realized. After the family moved to Auteuil in Paris, he attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly there . He shone with his academic achievements and during this time he got to know young poets such as Franc-Nohain and Oscar Venceslas de Lubicz-Milosz. His mother moved with him to central Paris after becoming a widow. There the young man met Oscar Wilde , among others, in the city's literary cafés and made acquaintance with the symbolist and the decadents .

At the age of 24, Boutet published a collection of fantastic, decadent tales called Contes dans la nuit for the Parisian occult publisher Chamuel . In the following years he published other grotesque and decadent stories with the same publisher, some of which already anticipated the coming surrealism . Two short novels then appeared, which were printed in one volume in 1902.

In 1903 Boutet joined the editorial staff of the Français , the evening edition of the daily Le Matin . In the following years he published short stories and several novels in various daily and weekly newspapers. In 1908 eighteen of his stories from the Français with the title Histoires vraisemblables were published .

Boutet was married twice and died after the defeat of France in World War II in Arcachon on the southwestern French Atlantic coast.

Prizes and awards

Publications

  • Contes dans la nuit . Chamuel, Paris 1898.
  • Drames baroques et mélancoliques . Chamuel, Paris 1899.
  • Les Victimes grimacent . Chamuel, Paris 1900.
  • L'Homme sauvage et Julius Pingouin , two short novels. Félix Jouven, Paris 1902.
  • Histoires vraisemblables . Société Générale d'Éditions, Paris 1908.
    • New edition 2004 by Lorenz-Thieme.
  • Aventures sombres et pittoresques . Ferenczi & fils, Paris 1921.
  • Le Reflet de Claude Mercœur ; a short novel and four short stories. Flammarion, Paris 1921.
  • Le Specter de M. Imberger . Flammarion, Paris 1922.
  • La Scène tournante . Gallimard , Paris 1926.
    • German by Lina Frender: rotating stage , selected short stories. Weltgeist books, Berlin-Charlottenburg 1926.
  • Les Aventuriers du mystère: Tableau de l'Au-delà . Gallimard, Paris 1927.
    • German by Hanns Heinz Ewers and Maria Ewers-aus'm Weerth: The last adventure . Georg Müller, Munich 1927.
  • German by R. Breuer-Lucka: The island of seven nights . Georg Müller, Munich 1928.
  • La peau d'orange . Librairie des Champs-Élysées, Paris 1935.
  • Dictionnaire des sciences occultes and Dictionnaire des songes . Librairie des Champs-Élysées, Paris 1937.
  • German from Lucy Housse: His shadow . Münster-Verlag, Basel 1950.
  • German by Lucy Housse: tragic about Daniel Le Bracy , novel. Éditions de la Coupole, Strasbourg 1955.
  • German by Hanns Heinz Ewers and Maria Ewers-aus'm Weerth: The Lady in Green: Unheimliche Geschichte ; Series: The Five Mark Books. Langen / Müller, Munich / Vienna 1971

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personal data
SURNAME Boutet, Frédéric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Bourges , Cher department , France
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1941
Place of death Arcachon , Gironde department , France