Francis de Miomandre
Francis de Miomandre (* as François Félicien Durand May 22, 1880 in Tours , † August 1, 1959 in Saint-Quay-Portrieux ) was a French writer. In 1908 he received the Prix Goncourt for the novel Écrit sur de l'eau .
As a writer, he published under his mother's maiden name.
Francis de Miomandre grew up in Marseille and founded the Revue Méditerranéenne with other young writers there in 1894.
His main job was to write for many magazines such as Mercure de France and Cahiers du Sud and also worked for an art gallery and as a secretary for an art magazine. From 1922 to 1959 he had a column in the Nouvelles littéraires.
He was also one of the most important French translators from Spanish into French (especially literature from South America but also, for example, Miguel de Unamuno and Miguel de Cervantes ). He also published poetry (his first book was a volume of poetry, Les Reflets et les souvenirs 1904) and essays.
His novel Écrit sur l'eau (the title alludes to the epitaph by John Keats ) is about a young would-be poet in Marseilles, whose father is a fantasy and inventor. The poet publishes in an advertising leaflet under the pseudonym Manfred (borrowed by Byron) and takes refuge in his imagination. A marriage proposal to his childhood sweetheart is rejected by the girlfriend and her father. The poet consoles himself with the fact that he might later turn it into a tragedy. According to the entry in Kindler's literary dictionary, like many other books by the author, it is characterized by a playful, graceful style. The novel was first published in Le Feu magazine in barely 500 copies, and the choice of the Goncourt Committee was generally surprising.
Works
Novels and short stories:
- Écrit sur de l'eau ... (1908)
- Aventures merveilleuses d'Yvan Danubsko, prince valaque (1909)
- Le Vent et la Poussière . (1909)
- L'Ingénu (1910)
- Au Bon Soleil, scenes de la vie provençale (1911)
- Digression peacockienne (1911)
- Gazelle (Mémoire d'une tortue) (1910)
- Histoire de Pierre Pons, pantin de feutre, roman pour les enfants (1912)
- ... D'amour et d'eau fraîche (1913)
- L'Aventure de Thérèse Beauchamps (1913)
- Le Veau d'Or et la Vache Enragée (1917)
- Pantomime Anglaise (1918)
- Voyages d'un sédentaire (1918)
- La Cabane d'amour ou le Retour de l'oncle Arsène (1919)
- Le Mariage de Geneviève (1920)
- L'Amour sous les oliviers (1921)
- Les Taupes (1922)
- Ces Petits Messieurs (1922)
- Le Greluchon sentimental (1923)
- La Naufragée. (1924)
- La Jeune Fille au jardin , (1924)
- Contes des cloches de cristal (1925)
- La Bonbonnière d'or (1925)
- L'Ombre et l'Amour. Journal d'un homme timide. (1925)
- Le Radjah de Mazulipatam (1926)
- L'Amour de Mademoiselle Duverrier (1926)
- Olympe et ses amis (1927)
- Les Baladins d'amour (1928)
- Passy-Auteuil or Le vieux monsieur du square. Monologue intérieur. (1928)
- Soleil de Grasse (1929)
- Baroque (1929)
- Le Jeune Homme des palaces (1929)
- Le Patriarche (1919)
- Vie du sage Prospero (1930)
- Jeux de glaces (1930)
- Âmes russes 1910 (1931)
- Les Égarements de Blandine (1932)
- Otarie. arabesque amoureuse et marine. (1933)
- Le Zombie (1935)
- Le Cabinet chinois (1936)
- Direction Étoile (1937)
- L'invasion du paradis (1937)
- Le Fil d'Ariane (1941)
- Portes. (1943)
- Fugues (1943)
- Les Jardins de Marguilène (1943)
- Le Raton laveur et le maître d'hôtel (1944)
- Primevère et l'Ange (1945)
- L'Âne de Buridan (1946)
- La Conference (1946)
- Rencontres dans la Nuit (1954)
- L'Œuf de Colomb (1954)
- Aorasia (1957)
- Caprices (1960)
Others:
- Mon Caméléon, Albin Michel 1937 (reprinted several times)
- Mallarmé, 1948
Web links
- Ces prix Goncourt sont-ils encore lisibles? Reviews of old Goncourt winners at Le Monde, November 6, 2008
- Information on Francis de Miomandre in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Francis de Miomandre in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kindlers Literaturlexikon, dtv, p. 2965
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Miomandre, Francis de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Durand, François |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tours |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 1959 |
| Place of death | Saint-Quay-Portrieux |