Georges Darien
Georges Darien ( pseudonym for Georges Hippolyte Adrien ; born April 6, 1862 in Paris , † August 19, 1921 ) was a French author who is associated with anarchism .
Life
Georges Hippolyte Adrien was born in 1862 at 46 Rue du Bac in Paris, the son of a cloth merchant. His brother Henri-Gaston Darien , who became a genre painter specializing in interiors and Parisian street scenes, was born two years later. His mother died in 1869 and his father married Elise-Antoinette Schlumberger, an Alsatian Protestant . The strict religiosity of his stepmother stood in stark contrast to his later views, which can be assigned to anti-clericalism . After completing school at the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris, he volunteered for five years in the army. Between June 1883 and March 1886 he was part of the Battalion d'infanterie légère d'Afrique in the Tunisian desert. During his service there he spent almost a year in captivity.
In 1889 he published his first book, Bas les coeurs! , a satire on the effects of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the Paris Commune of 1871. Biribi, discipline militaire, followed in 1890 . As the author personally experienced, the prison camp was not a normal penal system, but the ultimate punishment available to the French army for rebellious behavior. The book inspired a campaign to reform prison camps. In the same year Les Chapons and Les vrais Sous-offs were published, followed by Les Pharisiens in 1891 . The latter was a fictional charge of French anti-Semitism and its most prominent advocate, Édouard Drumont .
Between 1893 and 1905 he traveled frequently to London and eventually settled there. He appreciated British culture and started writing in English. He also lived in Brussels and Wiesbaden for a while , but many aspects of his life between 1891 and 1897 are largely unknown.
In 1899 he married Suzanne Caroline Abresch, who was born in London in 1863 to German parents. The following year he wrote his inflammatory pamphlet La Belle France , published in 1901.
In 1903 and 1904 he contributed articles to the anarchist magazine L'Ennemi du peuple , until it was finally discontinued due to ongoing disputes with Charles Malato . In the same year he published the novel L'Épaulette .
In the late 1890s he discovered Georgism , the doctrine of a tax only on land ownership, inspired by the American economist Henry George . He also ran unsuccessfully in local, cantonal and parliamentary elections in Paris. He also devoted himself to the theater, although not much is known about his last years. He died on August 19, 1921, a widowed and newly married man.
Georges Darien was rediscovered in France after the publisher Jean-Jacques Pauvert Le Voleur (1955) and Bas les cœurs! (1957) republished. In 1967, a film version was published by Le Voleur by Louis Malle and 1971 by Daniel Moosmann a film adaptation of Biribi (film music of Mikis Theodorakis ).
Works
Books
- Bas les coeurs! (1889)
- with Lucien Descaves: Les Chapons (Piece en un acte) (Paris, 1890)
- Biribi (1890)
- Le Voleur (1897)
- La Belle France (1898)
- L'Epaulette (1901)
- The cowards (Vienna, 1981)
- with Charles van Doren: Das neue Tabago-Buch (Hamburg, Reemtsma, 1985)
- The Thief (Nördlingen, Greno Verlag, 1989, series: Die other Bibliothek 54)
- Florentine (Bordeaux, Finitude, 2002)
pamphlet
- Les Pharisiens
Plays
- L'ami de l'ordre (1898)
literature
- Auriant (Alexandre Hadjivassiliou), Darien et l'inhumaine comédie , Brussels: Ambassade du livre, 1966
- WD Redfern, Georges Darien: Robbery and Private Enterprise , Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1985
- David Bosc, Georges Darien , Éditions Sulliver, 1996
- Valia Gréau, Georges Darien et l'anarchisme littéraire , Editions du Lérot, 2002
Web links
- Works at gutenberg.org
- Website about Darien in French
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Darien, Georges |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Adrien, Georges Hippolyte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 19, 1921 |