Henri Bosco

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Henri Bosco (born November 16, 1888 in Avignon , † May 4, 1976 in Nice ) was a French poet , novelist and author of young books .

Life

View of Lourmarin
Bosco's tombstone in Lourmarin

Henri Bosco was born in 1888 on Rue Carreterie No. 3 in Avignon, where his father worked as a stonemason , violin maker and tenor . From the age of three, the family moved to rural Lourmarin in Provence .

After studying Classical Philology and Italian Studies in Avignon, Grenoble and Florence , Bosco first taught at the University of Belgrade and later in Grenoble and Naples . From 1931 to 1955 Bosco lived in Rabat , where he founded the Moroccan Alliance Française .

Henri Bosco wrote about thirty bucolic - fantastic novels based on the models of Nodier , Alain-Fournier and Jean Giono , in which he expressed his romantic and mystical worldview. In it, Provence is Arcadia , paradise lost . He also wrote several eclogues . His books for young people are among the classics of their genre in France.

The novel Le Mas Théotime (“Der Hof Theotime”), which won the Prix ​​Renaudot in 1945, is the author's best-known book to this day.

Henri Bosco's grave is in Lourmarin, at the foot of the Lubéron .

Theme and style

The central subject of Boscos' works is the exploration of the human soul in search of paradise. Children have a special place here. In addition to an easily understandable surface layer and a captivating plot, Bosco uses a dense network of symbols and references, "the decoding of which only reveals the deeper meaning of the narrative". By combining opposites, he also tries to psychologically sound out the divergent worldviews that are inherent in them.

Awards

Work (selection)

  • 1927: Pierre Lampedouze
  • 1928: Églogues de la mer
  • 1932: Le Sanglier
  • 1937: L'Âne Culotte
  • 1940: Hyacinthe
  • 1944: Bucoliques de Provence
  • 1945: Le Jardin d'Hyacinthe
  • 1945: Le Mas Théotime
  • 1945: L'Enfant et la rivière
  • 1947: Monsieur Carré-Benoît à la campagne
  • 1948: Malicroix
  • 1950: Un rameau de la nuit
  • 1954: L'Antiquaire
  • 1957: Sabinus
  • 1961: Un oubli moins profond
  • 1971: Le Récif
  • 1972: Aunt Martine

German-language editions (selection)

  • The Theotime Court . Fischer Paperback: 1962
  • White fox and dark magic. Arena: 1968
  • The sleeping waters . Free Spiritual Life: 1999
  • The donkey with the velvet pants . Henri Bosco and Günther Vulpius. Ullstein Tb 1957, Klett-Cotta 1981, dtv 1991, Free Spiritual Life: 1999

Secondary literature (selection)

  • Baptiste, Vinca. "Un voyage intérieur: l'enfant face à la nature dans le cycle de Pascalet". In: Henri Bosco: "Rêver l'enfance" , Arras, Cahiers Robinson, n ° 4, 1998, p. 135-145.
  • Baudry, Robert. "Les signes symboliques (dates, noms, figures) in l'art de Henri Bosco". In: L'art de Henri Bosco , Actes du IIe colloque international Henri Bosco, Paris, J. Corti, 1981, p. 54-84.
  • Beckett, Sandra L. "Poétique du rêve et rêves poétiques chez Henri Bosco". In: Cahiers du CERMEIL , n ° spécial: Actes ..., n ° 13, juin 1997, p. 16-24.
  • Matt, Leonard von. Don Bosco . Don-Bosco-Verlag, Munich: 1987, 2nd edition.
  • Henky, Danièle. The art de la fugue en litterature de jeunesse . Lang, Bern: 2004
  • Verdaguer, Pierre. "Henri Bosco et l ' utopie méridionaliste". In: The French Review , Vol. 74, No. 1, Oct. 2000
  • Wertheimer, A. "En quete du paradis terrestre". In: Cahiers du Sud, n ° 294, 1949, p. 261-284

swell

  • Bosco, Henri. L'enfant et la rivière. Edited edition by Chatherine Bernot. Ernst Klett Schulbuchverlag, Stuttgart: 1999, p. 3
  • Winfried Engler : Lexicon of French Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 388). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-520-38802-2 , pp. 138-139.
  • Laffont-Bompiani. Dictionnaire Encyclopédique De La Littérature Française . Edition Robert Laffont, Paris: 1997, p. 115
  • Schwendemann, Irene (ed.). Major works of French literature . Edition Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, Munich: 1976, p. 403

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Engler, Winfried. Lexicon of French Literature . Kröner, Stuttgart: 1984, p. 138
  2. ↑ see Engler
  3. ↑ ibid.
  4. ↑ "l'âme, le maître mot de son œvre" (see: Jean Charles Rémy In: Laffont-Bompiani, 1997)
  5. ↑ KLL
  6. ↑ cf. Laffont-Bompiani
  7. ↑ http://henribosco.free.fr/indexgeneral.html
personal data
SURNAME Bosco, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Avignon
DATE OF DEATH May 4th 1976
Place of death Nice