Henri Mitterand
Henri Mitterand (born August 7, 1928 in Vault-de-Lugny ) is a French Romanist .
life and work
Mitterand wrote a master's thesis on Le langage populaire dans Le Feu de Barbusse . He was a student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and in 1951 Agrégé . From 1957 to 1968 he taught at the Universities of Besançon and Reims, from 1968 to 1978 at the University of Paris-VIII-Vincennes, from 1978 to 1990 at the University of Paris-III Sorbonne Nouvelle and then until 2005 at Columbia University . In 1970/71 he was visiting professor at the University of Toronto .
As a student of Robert-Léon Wagner, he published Les mots français, one of the most widely read Que-sais-je? Volumes of the Presses Universitaires de France in 1963 and was responsible for it until its 10th edition in 2000.
It was also Robert-Léon Wagner who suggested the literary research field of Émile Zola to him , where he gained worldwide recognition through numerous editions, biographical works and interpretations as an outstanding expert. At the beginning of this research was the access to posthumous documents through the meeting with Jacques Emile-Zola (1891-1963), the son of Émile Zola and the domestic servant Jeanne Rozerot (1867-1914), with whose help Mitterrand became a friend of the family.
Mitterand has been President of the Société littéraire des amis d'Émile Zola since 1989 . He was editor of the Les Usuels series (Hachette / Tchou 1970 ff) and has been co-editor of the Les Usuels du Robert series since 1978 .
Works
Emile Zola editions of works
- Les Rougon-Macquart in 5 volumes, Paris 1960–1967 (Pléiade), in 20 volumes (Folio)
- Œuvres complètes in 15 volumes, Paris 1966–1970 (Cercle du livre précieux)
- Carnets d'enquêtes. Une ethnographie inédite de la France, texte établis et présentés, Paris 1987, 1991, 1993 (German: France. Mosaic of a society. Unpublished sketches and studies, Vienna / Darmstadt 1990; Italian: Taccuini. Un'etnografia inedita della Francia, Turin 1987 )
- Œuvres complètes in 20 volumes, Paris 2002–2009 (Nouveau Monde Éditions)
- Écrits sur le roman. Anthology établie, présentée et annotée, Livre de poche 2004
Monographs and edited volumes on Émile Zola
- Zola journalist. De l'Affaire Manet à l'Affaire Dreyfus, Paris 1962
- Zola et le naturalisme, Paris 1986, 4th edition 2002 (Que sais-je? 2314)
- Zola. L'histoire et la fiction, Paris 1990
- Zola. La vérité en marche, Découvertes Gallimard series (n ° 257), Paris 1995
- Zola, 3 vols., Paris 1999–2002 (Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris, Prix de la biography littéraire de l'Académie française)
- Passion Émile Zola. Délires de la vérité, Paris 2002
- Lire, dé-lire Zola (Ed. Together with Jean-Pierre Leduc-Adine), Paris 2004 (Colloquium from 2002)
- Le Paris de Zola, Paris 2008
- Zola, tel qu'en lui-même, Paris 2009
Further literary studies
- La Lecture sociocritique du texte romanesque. Actes du Colloque organisé à Toronto en novembre 1972 par les Universités de Toronto et de Paris-VIII (Ed. Together with Graham Falconer), Toronto 1975
- Le discours du roman, Paris 1980, 2nd edition 1986
- Le regard et le signe. Poétique du roman réaliste et naturaliste, Paris 1987
- L'Illusion réaliste. De Balzac à Aragon, Paris 1994
- La littérature française du XXe siècle, Paris 1996, 2005, 2007
- Le roman à l'œuvre. Genèse et valeurs, Paris 1998
- (Ed.) Chroniques de Guy de Maupassant. Textes choisis, présentés et annotés, Paris 2008 (Pochothèque)
Linguistics
- Les Mots français, Paris 1963, 2nd edition 1965, 3rd edition 1968, 4th edition 1972, 5th edition 1976, 6th edition 1981, 7th edition 1986, 8th edition 1992, 9th edition 1996, 10th edition 2000 (Que sais-je? 270)
- Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique et historique (together with Albert Dauzat and Jean Dubois), Paris 1964, 2nd edition 1971, 4th edition 1980, 1991, 1993, 2005
- ABC de grammaire française, Paris 1969
literature
- Mimesis et semiosis. Literature and representation. Miscellanées offertes à Henri Mitterand, ed. by Philippe Hamon and Jean-Pierre Leduc-Adine, Paris 1992 (with list of publications)
Web links
- Literature by and about Henri Mitterand in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://www.columbia.edu/cu/french/department/fac_bios/mitterand.htm (with picture)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mitterand, Henri |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Romanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vault-de-Lugny |