Jean-Jacques Mayoux

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Jean-Jacques Mayoux

Jean-Jacques Mayoux (born June 27, 1901 in Paris , † 1987 ) was a French literary scholar and translator.

Live and act

Mayoux attended the Collège Rollin ( 9th arrondissement ) and the Lycée Louis-le-Grand (9th arrondissement). He then studied at the Sorbonne and the University of Exeter .

Back in Paris, Mayoux went back to university and received his agrégation for English in 1923, where he also received his doctorate ten years later .

Between 1925 and 1936 Mayoux acted as Maître de conférences at the University of Liverpool and in the autumn of 1936 came to the University of Nancy in the same position . After the German occupation , he joined the Resistance .

Mayoux was in the city during the liberation of Paris in August 1944. In 1945, immediately after the end of the war, he was entrusted with the management of the Institut international de coopération intellectuelle , which was affiliated to the League of Nations . When this was dissolved the following year, Mayoux lost this office again.

In 1951 Mayoux was appointed as a literary scholar at the Sorbonne and he stayed there until 1973. As an opponent of the French doctrine and the Algerian war , Mayoux was one of the signatories of the manifesto of the 121st in September 1960 .

In the course of 1973 Mayoux gave up all his offices and retired into private life.

Fonts

as an author
  • La peinture anglaise. De Hogarth aux Préraphaélites . Skira, Geneva 1972.
    • German: The English painting. From Hogarth to the Pre-Raphaelites . Skira, Geneva 1972.
  • Melville par lui-même (= Écrivains de toujours. 44). Édition du Seuil, Paris 1970.
  • Joyce . Gallimard, Paris 1965.
    • German: Joyce . translated by Rudolf Wittkopf . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1967.
  • Vivant piliers. The roman anglo-saxonne et les symboles . Nadeau, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-86231-056-5 .
  • William Shakespeare . Aubier Montaigne, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-7007-0273-5 .
  • Samuel Beckett (= Writers and their work. Volume 234). Longman, Harlow 1968, ISBN 0-582-01236-8 .
    • German: About Beckett . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1969 (abridged translation)
  • L'humour et l'absurde. Attitudes anglo-saxonne, attitudes françaises (= The Zaharoff Lecture. 1973). Clarendon Press, Oxford 1973, ISBN 0-19-952239-1 .
as translator

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Today Université de Lorraine .
  2. ↑ s. a. La Liberation .
  3. ↑ Named after Basil Zaharoff (1849–1936).
  4. ^ German translation: Nachtmahr-Abtei .
  5. ^ German translation: Heart of Darkness .
  6. ^ German translation: The secret partner .
personal data
SURNAME Mayoux, Jean-Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French literary scholar and translator
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 1987