Kléber Haedens

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Kléber Haedens (born December 11, 1913 in Équeurdreville-Hainneville , Department Manche ; † August 13, 1976 in Aureville , Department Haute-Garonne ) was a French journalist, author and literary critic.

life and work

Haedens grew up as the son of a professional officer in Senegal , attended the military school Prytanée National Militaire in La Flèche and a school in Libourne . At the request of his parents, he studied at the Ecole supérieure de commerce of Bordeaux (today: KEDGE Business School ), but after graduating he turned to literacy as a novelist, critic and literary historian. From 1943 to 1945 he published the magazine Le Livre des lettres in the Robert Laffont publishing house . From 1951 Haedens withdrew to a farm in the foreland of Toulouse.

Haedens published a non-conformist but successful history of French literature in 1943 with harsh judgments, e.g. B. on the style of Victor Hugo .

Haedens was politically under the influence of Léon Daudet and Charles Maurras (whose secretary he was for a while) and belonged to Action française in the 1930s . This proved to be an obstacle when the Mayor of La Garenne-Colombes , Philippe Juvin , wanted to name a school after him in 2008 (and had to give up his project in view of the numerous protests).

Haedens is often associated with the literary group Les Hussards , to which Roger Nimier , Jacques Laurent , Michel Déon , Antoine Blondin and others are counted, who shared with him the aversion to the Nouveau Roman and the philosophy of the absurd.

Works

Novels

  • L'École des parents , Paris 1937 (German: Die Schule der Eltern , Leipzig 1939)
  • Magnolia-Jules , Paris 1938
  • Une Jeune serpente , Paris 1940
  • Franz , Paris / Marseille 1944
  • Adieu à la rose , Paris 1945
  • Salut au Kentucky , Paris 1947
  • L'été finit sous les tilleuls , Paris 1966 (Spanish: El verano termina bajo los tilos, Santiago 1968), awarded the Prix ​​Interallié in 1966
  • Adios , Paris 1974

Literary criticism

  • Gérard de Nerval ou la Sagesse romantique, Paris 1939
  • Paradoxe sur le roman , Marseille 1941, Paris 1964 (Turkish: Roman sanatı, Istambul 1953)
  • (Ed.) Poésie française. Une anthologie , Toulouse 1942; Paris 2009 (with foreword by Jean d'Ormesson )
  • Une histoire de la littérature française , Paris 1943, 1949, 1954, ext. 1970, 1988, 1989 (with foreword by Michel Déon ), 2007; Geneva 1979 (Italian: La letteratura francese, Milan 1960)
  • L'Air du pays , Paris 1963, 1986 (collective publication, foreword by Geneviève Dormann )
  • (Ed.) Gérard de Nerval, Les filles du feu suivi de Aurélia , Paris 1964, 1968 (Le Livre de poche)

literature

  • Étienne de Montety, Salut à Kléber Haedens , Paris 1996 (biography)
  • Kléber Haedens, Lettres de la petite ferme , ed. by Étienne de Montety, Paris 2000

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personal data
SURNAME Haedens, Kléber
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist, author and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Équeurdreville-Hainneville
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1976
Place of death Aureville