Jean Rousset

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Jean Rousset (born February 20, 1910 in Geneva , † September 14, 2002 ibid) was a Swiss Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Rousset studied humanities (and law) at the University of Geneva. His teachers were Albert Thibaudet and Marcel Raymond . From 1938 to 1943 Rousset was a French lecturer at the Universities of Halle and Munich, and from 1949 assistant at the University of Geneva. He received his doctorate in 1953 on La Littérature de l'âge baroque en France. Circé et le paon (Paris 1953; Spanish Barcelona 1972; Italian Bologna 1985) and was Professor of French Literature at the University of Geneva from 1953 to 1976 as a colleague of Marcel Raymond and Jean Starobinski .

Rousset was a member of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome. He received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Lausanne, Cluj-Napoca , Paris (Sorbonne), Venice and Trento.

Other works

author

  • Form et signification. Essais sur les structures littéraires de Corneille à Claudel, Paris 1962 (Italian Turin 1976)
  • L'Intérieur et l'extérieur. Essais sur la poésie et sur le théâtre au 17e siècle, Paris 1968
  • Narcisse romancier. Essai sur la première personne dans le roman, Paris 1973
  • Leurs yeux se rencontrèrent. La scene de première vue dans le roman, 1973
  • Le mythe de Don Juan, Paris 1978 (Italian Parma 1980)
  • Leurs yeux se rencontrèrent. La scene de première vue dans le roman, Paris 1981
  • Le lecteur intime. De Balzac au journal, Paris 1986
  • Passages, échanges et transpositions, Paris 1990
  • Dernier regard sur le baroque, Paris 1998

Ed. And translator

  • Max Picard , L'homme du néant, 1946 (Hitler in ourselves)
  • Jean de La Ceppède, Choix de textes, Paris 1947
  • Andreas Gryphius , Choix de textes, Paris 1947
  • Pierre de Ronsard , Œuvres choisies, Paris 1948
  • Angelus Silesius , Le voyageur chérubinique & La sainte joie de l'âme, Paris 1949 (Cherubian Wanderer & Holy Soul Desire)
  • Alfred Andersch , Les cerises de la liberté, Paris 1954, Arles 1990 (The cherries of freedom)
  • Anthologie de la poésie baroque française, 2 vols., Paris 1961, 1988, 1992

literature

  • Robert Vigneault: Jean Rousset et le baroque, in: Etudes françaises 6, 1970, pp. 65-78
  • Roger Francillon, Jean Rousset ou la passion de la lecture, Geneva 2001
  • John E. Jackson, in: Le Temps September 16, 2002
  • Isabelle Rüf: Rousset, maître modeste et audacieux, in: Le Temps September 21, 2002
  • Michel Contat, in: Le Monde September 27, 2002
  • La critique littéraire suisse near the l' Ecole de Genève . In memoriam Jean Rousset, ed. by Olivier Pot, Tübingen 2002
  • Michel Jeanneret: In memoriam Jean Rousset (1910-2002), in: Dix-septième siècle 221, 2003, pp. 579-584
  • Jean Rousset, L'aventure baroque, ed. by Michel Jeanneret, Geneva 2006 (including Jean Starobinski on Jean Rousset)

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personal data
SURNAME Rousset, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 2002
Place of death Geneva