Léon Savary
Léon Savary (born April 29, 1895 in Fleurier , † February 17, 1968 in Boudry , legal domicile in Payerne ) was a Swiss writer and journalist .
Life
Léon Savary was the son of a Reformed pastor from Vaud and a Baltic mother of aristocratic origin. He converted to Catholicism . After studying humanities at the University of Friborg , he was editor of the newspaper Le Genevois from 1921 to 1923 , then from 1935 to 1946 a correspondent for the daily newspaper Tribune de Genève in Bern and from 1946 to 1956 in Paris . As a historian in his adopted home Freiburg, he was the author of the studies Friborg (1929), Le Collège Saint-Michel (1932) and La Chartreuse de la Valsaint (1937). He was secretary to National Councilor Georges Python . With Gonzague de Reynold and René de Weck, he formed the troika of Freiburg writers of the early twentieth century.
He participated in the publication of novels with critical descriptions of intellectual and religious milieus as well as chronicles and memories. In German translation (by Werner Johannes Guggenheim ) only the novel The Herd without a Shepherd was published by him in 1943 in the Gutenberg Book Guild . As a person close to Jack Rollan, he published the polemic Voulez-vous être conseiller national? and was a member of the Belles-Lettres fraternity .
At one point, all of Switzerland was targeted by Savary's polemics: in 1949, in the Lettres à Suzanne , what was probably the most biting account of Switzerland's adjustment policy during the Second World War .
Savary spent his final years in Vevey and Bulle . His grave is in the Estavayer-le-Lac cemetery .
Awards
- 1960: Prize for total works from the Swiss Schiller Foundation .
Works
- Le secret de Joachim Ascalles , 1923
- Manido chez les Genevois , 1927
- Friborg , 1929
- Le collège Saint-Michel , 1932
- La chartreuse de La Valsainte , 1937
- Le fardeau leger , 1938
- Le cordon d'argent , 1940
- La fin d'un mensonge , 1940
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Le troupeau sans berger , 1942
- German: The herd without a shepherd , Zurich 1943
- En passant , 1942
- Au seuil de la sacristie , 1944
- Lettres à Suzanne , 1949
- Le cendrier d'Erymanthe , 1953
- Le fonds des rescuscités , 1956 (= memoirs, first volume)
- Voulez-vous être conseiller national? , 1958
- Les balances faussées , 1966 (= memoirs, second volume)
- La bibliothèque de Sauvives , 1970
- L'âme de Genève , 1979
- Les œuvres maîtresses . Five volumes, Geneva 1979
literature
- Maurice Zermatten et al .: Léon Savary à l'occasion de son soixante-dixième anniversaire. Biel 1965.
- Léon Savary (1895-1968). In: La Revue de Belles-Lettres. Geneva, year 98 (1974), issue 4.
- Charles Linsmayer : Swiss literary scene. 157 short portraits from Rousseau to Gertrud Leutenegger . Unionsverlag, Zurich 1989, ISBN 978-3-293-00152-7 (p. 212f)
- Roger Francillon (Ed.): Histoire de la littérature en Suisse romande. Payot, Lausanne 1997, ISBN 2-601-03183-2 , Volume 2, pp. 389f.
Web links
- Publications by and about Léon Savary in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Doris Jakubec: Savary, Léon. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Léon Savary in the database Dodis the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
- Voulez-vous être conseiller national?
- Charles Linsmayer : On the novel The flock without a shepherd
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Savary: Léon Savary. In: Find a Grave . October 21, 2016, accessed May 15, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Savary, Leon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fleurier |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th February 1968 |
| Place of death | Boudry |