Jean Reverzy
Jean Reverzy (born April 10, 1914 in Balan , † July 9, 1959 in Lyon ) was a French doctor and writer from Lyon who was extremely successful with his first work Le Passage published in 1954 . The novel describes the creeping decline of a man with liver disease who returns to France from Tahiti to die there. There he is looked after by a doctor friend of his. Flashbacks allow the narrator to depict life on the tropical island and describe it as rotten and rotten. Reverzy himself stayed in French Polynesia in 1953. With his literature on Tahiti he joins a literary ranks that range from Pierre Loti to Victor Segalen to Paul Gauguin . The novel received the Prix Renaudot book prize in 1954 . Le Passage has been sold over 100,000 times to date.
Reverzy wrote two other novels before his death in 1959: Place des Angoisses (1956) and Le Corridor (1958). Other posthumously published texts include a. Le silence de Cambridge and La vraie vie .
Publications (excerpt)
- Le passage. Edouard du Sonneur, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-916136-70-7 .
- La vraie vie. Le Passeur / Cecofop, Nantes 1998, ISBN 2-907913-60-3 .
- Le souffle. Actes Sud, Arles 1994, ISBN 2-7427-0161-3 .
- Place des angoisses. Flammarion, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-02-006187-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean Reverzy in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Jean Reverzy in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Information on Jean Reverzy in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reverzy, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French doctor and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Balan |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1959 |
| Place of death | Lyon |