Hector Malot
Hector Henri Malot (born May 20, 1830 in La Bouille , † July 17, 1907 in Fontenay-sous-Bois ) was a French writer .
Life
Malot's father was a notary who lived as a widower in his second marriage with the widow of a captain of the Foreign Legion . Both brought two children from their first marriage. Hector was the youngest child in this stepfamily .
While his father was rigid and strict, his mother was more conciliatory and read travelogues to the child to sleep (perhaps inspired by her first husband). She also sparked his love for storytelling. When he came of age, he decided against his father's advice to study law and turned to literature.
The young Malot studied at the Lycée Corneille in Rouen, ten years after Gustave Flaubert had studied there. Malot was friends with Jules Levallois , the later bailiff of Sainte-Beuve and future literary critic. At school, he did not impress with outstanding performance.
In 1853 he moved to Paris, where he tried in vain to present a first piece. In order to secure his livelihood, he wrote for daily newspapers and magazines. Finally he went back to his parents to write his first trilogy Les Victimes d'amour . The first part appeared in 1859.
In 1864 he began building a country house in Fontenay-sous-Bois , which he would live in until his death. Because it was not far from the train station, he used the trains to Paris to take walks there. In 1867 he married Anna Dariès. Their daughter Lucie was born the following year.
His wife died in 1880. In 1881, Hector Malot married the 31-year-old Marthe Oudinot de la Faverie.
In 1893, one year after the publication of En Famille , his granddaughter Perrine was born (the first name is that of the main character in the novel).
Works
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Victimes d'Amour (trilogy)
- Les Amants (1859)
- Les Epoux (1865)
- Les Enfants (1866)
- Les Amours de Jacques (1860)
- Romain Kalbris (1869)
- Un Beau-frère (1869)
- Une Bonne Affaire (1870)
- Madame Obernin (1870)
- Souvenirs d'un Blessé (1872 / Suzanne, Miss Clifton)
- Un Curé de Province (1872)
- Un Miracle (1872)
- Un Mariage sous le second empire (1873)
- La Belle Madame Donis (1873)
- Clotilde Martory (1873)
- Une Belle-Mère (1874)
- Le Mariage de Juliette (1874)
- Le Mari de Charlotte (1874)
- La Fille de la Comédienne (1875)
- L'Héritage d'Arthur (1875)
- L'Auberge du Monde ( Le Colonel Chamberlain 1875, La marquise de Lucilière 1875, Ida et Carmélita 1876, Thérèse 1876)
- Les Batailles du Mariage ( Un Bon Jeune Homme 1877, Comte du Pape 1877, Marié par les Prêtres 1877)
- Cara (1878)
- Sans famille (1878, German title: Heimatlos )
- Le Docteur Claude (1879)
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La Bohême Tapageuse
- Raphaëlle (1880)
- La Duchesse d'Arvernes (1880)
- Corysandre (1880)
- Une Feme d'Argent (1881)
- Pompon (1881)
- Séduction (1881)
- Les Millions Honteux (1882)
- La Petite Sœur (1882)
- Paulette (1883)
- Les Besoigneux (1883)
- Marichette (1884)
- Micheline (1884)
- Le Sang Bleu (1885)
- Le Lieutenant Bonnet (1885)
- Baccarat (1886)
- Zyte (1886)
- Vices Français (1887)
- Ghislaine (1887)
- Conscience (1888)
- Mondaine (1888)
- Justice (1889)
-
Mariage Riche (1889), recueil de nouvelles:
- Mariage Riche
- Vire de Bord
- L'Ombre
- Une Peur
- Sous le Suaire
- Le Magot
- Le Café Adèle
- Mère (1890)
- Anie (1891)
- Complices (1893)
- En Famille (1893) (German title: A girl finds home / 1965)
- Amours de Jeune (1894)
- Amours de Vieux (1894)
- Un Nom (1895)
- Le Roman de mes Romans (1896) (autobiography littéraire dans laquelle il relate les circonstances d'écriture de chacun de ses romans)
- Le Mousse (1997) (roman pour la jeunesse; édition posthume)
Film adaptations
- 1957 - The adventures of little Remi ( Sans famille ) - Director: André Michel
- 1978 - Perrine ( Perrine Monogatari )
- 1997 - Ie Naki Ko Remi
- 2000 - The foundling
bibliography
- Edmond Spalikowski , Hector Malot et La Bouille , 1931.
- Agnès Thomas-Maleville, Promenades en Normandie avec un guide nommé Hector Malot , éd. Charles Corlet, Condé-sur-Noireau, 1994.
- Agnès Thomas-Maleville, Hector Malot, l'écrivain au grand cœur , éd. du Rocher, 2000.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hector Malot in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Hector Malot in the Gutenberg-DE project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Malot, Hector |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Malot, Hector Henri (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Bouille , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 17, 1907 |
| Place of death | Fontenay-sous-Bois , France |