Gabriel Chevallier

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Gabriel Chevallier

Gabriel Chevallier (born May 3, 1895 in Lyon , † April 6, 1969 in Cannes ) was a French journalist and man of letters .

Life

Chevallier was born in Lyon in 1895 and attended various schools before he was accepted into the École des Beaux-Arts in 1911 . He was called up at the beginning of the First World War and wounded a year later, but was sent back to the front, where he served as an infantryman until the end of the war. There he acquired the Croix de guerre and the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur . After the war, he took on various jobs, including art teacher, poster painter, designer, journalist and traveling salesman, before starting to write in 1925.

His work La Peur (German: Heldenangst ), published in 1930, built on his war experiences and was an indictment against the war. Chevallier had it withdrawn from circulation in 1938, when a new war with Germany threatened, in order not to be considered a defeatist. His most famous novel, Clochemerle , was written in 1934, translated into 26 languages ​​and sold several million times. The book was first made into a film by Pierre Chenal in 1947 . He wrote two sequels to this work, Clochemerle will Bad and Clochemerle - Babylon (also made into a film). Chevallier was married with a son and died in Cannes in 1969.

Works

  • Durand voyageur de commerce, 1929
  • La peur, 1930
    • German: fear of heroes . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2010. Translator: Stefan Glock.
  • Clarisse Vernon, 1933
  • Clochemerle , 1934
  • Propre à rien, 1936
  • Flailing years in Sainte-Colline, 1937
  • My little friend Pomme, 1940
  • Papa's heirs, 1945
  • Le guerrier désœuvré, 1945
  • Chemins de solitude, 1945
  • Mascarade, 1948
  • Clochemerle Babylon, 1951
  • The little general, 1953
  • Le Ravageur, 1953
  • Carrefours des hasards, 1956
  • Olympe or First Love, 1959
  • Les filles sont libres. Editions Flammarion Paris 1960.
    • German: The girls are free , translated by Eugen Helmlé . Stahberg Verlag, Karlsruhe 1961; as Fischer paperback, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-436-01621-7 .
  • Miss Taxi, 1961
  • Clochemerle becomes bath, 1963
  • L'envers de Clochemerle, 1966
  • Brumerives, 1968

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Notes of the author on the 1971 edition of Clochemerle published by Penguin Books
  2. ↑ http://www.cleargay.com/capitaine-nemo/39334/0/La-nuit-est-tombee.htm
  3. ↑ Werner Fuld: The book of forbidden books. Universal history of the persecuted and ostracized from antiquity to today. Galiani, Berlin 2012, p. 19.
personal data
SURNAME Chevallier, Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist and man of letters
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1969
Place of death Cannes