Herbert Ernest Bates

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Herbert Ernest Bates , often short HE Bates (born May 16, 1905 in Rushden , Northamptonshire , † January 29, 1974 in Canterbury ), was an English writer. Already loved to read during his lifetime, he became popular after his death through several film adaptations of his novels. He is best known for his Larkin stories, which he opened in 1958 with the novel The Darling Buds of May . For Graham Greene he - with his best works - was not inferior to Chekhov .

Life

After attending the Kettering Grammar School , Bates first worked as a reporter and warehouse clerk. He published his first stories at the age of 20. He turned out to be both a lover of flora and fauna and the human inhabitants of the Midlands , whom he observed very closely - and was also unusually productive. In almost 50 years, Bates has written over 300 short stories, 25 novels, several collections of dramas and essays, and a three-volume autobiography. The New York Times assures the reader will be immediately bewitched by Bates' friendliness, his sensual exuberance, his tenderness, his accomplished plots, his humor, his stylistically confident language and his deep respect for the dignity, even a kind of heroism, of his inconspicuous characters .

In 1931 Bates married Madge Cox from his hometown and moved with her to the village of Little Chart in Kent , where they set up a former granary surrounded by extensive garden land. Madge stayed here until old age, because she did not die until 2004 at the age of 95. The couple raised two daughters and two sons. Son Richard will produce the Larkins as a hugely successful television series after the death of his father . During the Second World War , Bates can continue to write stories - on behalf of the Royal Air Force , which wants startling accounts of the battlefield. They are first published in the press and later also in book form. According to Brockhaus Encyclopedia , these descriptions from the war are characterized by "stark realism". After 1945, Bates' novel production continued undiminished. The Purple Plain (German film title Flammen über Farost) will be filmed as a feature film (1954) with Gregory Peck in the lead role and Love for Lydia as a television series (1977), which was also broadcast in Germany. Bates died in 1974 at 68. A street in Rushden was named after him.

Works

Only German translations are listed below. A handsome list of all English editions can be found in the English Wikipedia , but there are no generic names.

  • A House of Women , Roman (1936), German. Woman in the house , Leipzig 1936, House of Women , Munich 1955.
  • Spella Ho , Roman (1938), German. Women around Spella Ho , Bern 1947, A man wants to live , Essen 1956.
  • Fair Stood the Wind for France , Roman (1944), German. Emergency landed in France , Bern 1945, Reinbek 1984.
  • The Purple Plain , Roman (1947), German. Return to life , Bern 1948.
  • The Jacaranda Tree , Roman (1949), dts. Escape , Bern 1950.
  • The Scarlet Sword , Roman (1950), German. The scarlet sword , Einsiedeln 1952, Ffm 1960.
  • Love for Lydia , Roman (1952), German. Love for Lydia , Bern 1953, Reinbek 1977, Stuttgart 1979.
  • The Nature of Love (1953), German. Dulcima , Gütersloh 1957.
  • The Feast of July , Roman (1954), German. Turn of love , Bern 1954, A summer night love , Düsseldorf 1996, Munich 1999.
  • The Sleepless Moon , Roman (1956), German. The sleepless moon , Bern 1956.
  • The Darling Buds of May , Roman (1958), German. Where milk and whiskey flow: from the cheerful country life of the Larkin family , Reinbek 1977.
  • A Breath of French Air , Roman (1959), German. A fun trip: with the Larkin family in France , Reinbek 1978.
  • Achilles the Donkey (1962). dts. Achilles the donkey , Winterthur 1962.

literature

  • Dennis Vanatta: HE Bates. literary study, Boston 1983.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Black Lamb May 2002 , accessed January 16, 2011
  2. ↑ The vanished world (1969), The blossoming world (1971), The world in ripeness (1972)
  3. ↑ Layabouts and Lovers . In: The New York Times . June 11, 1989 ( nytimes.com ).
  4. ↑ 19th edition, Volume 2 from 1987.
personal data
SURNAME Bates, Herbert Ernest
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bates, HE
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Rushden , Northamptonshire
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1974
Place of death Canterbury