Louis-René des Forêts

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Louis-René des Forêts (born January 28, 1918 in Paris , † December 30, 2000 there ) was a French writer. His work is not very extensive, but has received many awards and extensive commentary.

Life

Louis-René des Forêts spent his childhood alternately in Paris and in the family home in Berry . From the age of about 13 he attended a Catholic boarding school in Brittany , which was preparing for a career in the navy. There he read Baudelaire , Shakespeare and Goethe .

After completing secondary school in Bourges, des Forêts studied law and political science in Paris and began publishing columns on music and literature. He discovered Rimbaud and Joyce and in the late 1930s he made the acquaintance of Jean de Frotté, who introduced him to Patrice de La Tour du Pin, Michel du Boisberranger and Jean Chauvel. He traveled to Holland, Italy, England, Austria and Greece.

Drafted in 1939 and released from military service soon after the defeat of France, Des Forêts returned home to Berry in 1940 and was involved in the Resistance there . Between 1941 and 1943 he wrote his first novel, Les Mendiants (Eng. »The Beggars« ), which was published by Gallimard . In the course of the publication he befriended Raymond Queneau and André Frénaud . After the liberation of Paris he finished Le Bavard (dt. The babbler ); The story, published in 1946, was initially barely noticed and has now become the most commented work by des Forêts.

After working for the publisher Robert Laffont in Paris for a year, he married Janine Carré in 1946 and retired to the country. He has published texts in various magazines: L'Arbalète, Les Lettres nouvelles, La Nouvelle Revue française . After five years of working on an extensive novel entitled Voyage d'hiver (Eng. "Winterreise" ), he gave the manuscript to the fire, as Queneau was extremely skeptical about the project.

In 1953, Des Forêts returned to Paris and, with Queneau at Gallimard (where he was a member of the comité de lecture from 1966 to 1983 , of the lectorate), he was involved in the conception of the Encyclopédie de la Pléiade , a series of encyclopedic scientific texts within the famous Bibliothèque de la Pléiade . At that time he became friends with Michel Gallimard, Robert Antelme , Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot . In 1954 he founded the Comité contre la guerre d'Algérie (German committee against the Algerian war ) together with Dionys Mascolo , Edgar Morin and Robert Antelme .

In 1960 he published La Chambre des enfants (Eng. The nursery ), a collection of short stories that was awarded the prix des Critiques . From 1961 to 1964 he participated in the planning of a "Revue Internationale", an international magazine project in which, for example, Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Uwe Johnson on the German side, Italo Calvino and Elio Vittorini in Italy and Maurice Blanchot in France were involved. However, the project was never realized.

In 1967 the Forêts founded the magazine L'Éphémère together with Yves Bonnefoy , André du Bouchet , Paul Celan , Jacques Dupin , Michel Leiris and Gaëtan Picon . At Mercure de France he published Les Mégères de la mer ( Eng . The mega-bears of the sea ), a long poem that had already appeared in a magazine version in 1965. In the 1970s he devoted himself increasingly to ink drawing, so successfully that his pictures were exhibited several times. In the 1980s, his literary work received numerous awards.

1997 appeared Ostinato , a fragmentary autobiography, he had begun in 1975 with the drafting and from 1,984 to 1,994 statements and designs in the Nouvelle Revue Française , L'Ire des vents , Art Press , La Quinzaine littéraire and Le Cahier du refuge were published . In 2001, the Forêt's last completed work was published posthumously: Pas à pas jusqu'au dernier (German: step by step to the last ), an intimate examination of approaching death.

Works

  • Les Mendiants (novel), Paris: Gallimard 1943; "Édition définitive" 1986.
  • Le Bavard ( short story), Paris: Gallimard 1946; in the series »L'Imaginaire« 1979.
    • German: Der Schwätzer , translated by Elmar Tophoven , Munich: Kösel 1968; Translated by Friedhelm Kemp and Elmar Tophoven, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 1983.
  • La Chambre des enfants (short stories), Paris: Gallimard 1960; in the series "L'Imaginaire" 1983.
    • German: Das Kinderzimmer , translated by Friedhelm Kemp, Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag 2007.
  • Les Mégères de la mer (poem), Paris: Mercure de France 1967.
    • Dt .: Die Megär des Meeres , translated by Jonas Hock, with an afterword by Jonas Hock, Vienna / Berlin: Turia + Kant 2014.
  • Voies et détours de la fiction (essay), Montpellier: Fata Morgana 1985.
  • Un malade en forêt , Montpellier: Fata Morgana 1985.
  • Poèmes de Samuel Wood (poems), Montpellier: Fata morgana 1988.
    • Poems by Samuel Wood , translated by Jonas Hock, Vienna / Berlin: Turia + Kant 2015.
  • Le Malheur au Lido (short story), Montpellier: Fata Morgana 1987.
  • Ostinato (autobiographical fragments), Paris: Mercure de France 1997.
    • German: Ostinato , translated by Friedhelm Kemp, Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag 2002.
  • Pas à pas jusqu'au dernier , Paris: Mercure de France 2001.
    • German: Step by step to the last , translated by Jonas Hock, with an afterword by Gerhard Poppenberg, Vienna / Berlin: Turia + Kant 2014.

Prices

  • 1960 Prix des Critiques for La Chambre des enfants
  • 1988 Prix Maeterlinck
  • 1990 Grand prix national des Lettres for the complete works
  • 1997 Grand Prix de littérature de la SGDL for Ostinato
  • 1997 Prix de l'écrit intimate

literature

Monographs

  • Daniel Bensch, I tell. Analysis of narrative in France . Munich: Martin Meidenbauer 2011.
  • Maurice Blanchot, Une voix venue d'ailleurs , Plombières-les-Dijon: Ulysse fin de siècle 1992.
  • Marc Comina, Louis-René des Forêts, l'impossible silence , Seyssel: Champ Vallon 1998.
  • John Naughton, Louis-René des Forêts , Amsterdam: Rodopi 1993.
  • Pascal Quignard, Le Vœu de silence , Paris: Galilée 2005.
  • Dominique Rabaté, Louis-René des Forêts, la voix et le volume , Paris: José Corti 1991.
  • Jean Roudaut, Louis-René des Forêts , Paris: Seuil 1995.
  • Jean Roudaut, Encore un peu de neige , Paris: Mercure de France 1996.

items

  • Maurice Blanchot, "The empty word", from the French by Uli Menke, in: Maurice Blanchot, Die Freundigkeit , with an afterword by Gerhard Poppenberg, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2011, pp. 151–165.
  • Yves Bonnefoy, "Une écriture de notre temps", in: ders., La vérité de parole , Paris: Mercure de France 1988, pp. 115-259.
  • Jonas Hock, “To be sprayed, become the sea, become a poem. Notes on Louis-René des Forêts' Die Megären des Meeres «, epilogue in: Louis-René des Forêts, Die Megären des Meeres , edited and translated by Jonas Hock, Vienna / Berlin: Turia + Kant 2014, pp. 41–61.
  • Edmond Jabès, “L.-R. des Forêts ou le malaise de la question ”, in: ders .: Le Livre des marges 1: Ça suit son cours , Paris: Fata morgana 1984, pp. 202-209.
  • Friedhelm Kemp, "Afterword", in: Louis-René des Forêts, Ostinato , from the French by Friedhelm Kemp, Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag 2002, pp. 231–243.
  • Friedhelm Kemp, "About Louis-René des Forêts", in: Akzente . Zeitschrift für Literatur, 38th vol. (1991), Heft 3, pp. 208-210.
  • Richard Millet, “Sur L.-R. des Forêts ", in: ders., Accompagnements , Paris: POL 1991, pp. 52-60.
  • Bernard Pingaud, "Les pouvoirs de la voix", in: ders .: L'Expérience romanesque , Paris: Gallimard 1983, pp. 265–281.

Journals (special issues and dossiers)

  • Revue et corrigée: Autour de Louis-René des Forêts 3–4 (1978).
  • Les Cahiers du Temps qu'il fait: Louis-René des Forêts 6-7 (1991).
  • Revue des Sciences Humaines: Louis-René des Forêts 249 (1998), 1.
  • La Nouvelle Revue Française 559 (2001).
  • Cahier Critique de Poésie: Dossier Louis-René des Forêts 2 (2001).
  • Critique: Louis René des Forêts 668-669 (2003).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bio- / bibliography in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (French)
  2. ↑ Cf. on biography v. a. Jean Roudaut, Louis-René des Forêts , Paris: Seuil 1995, pp. 7-14; Le Temps qu'il fait. Louis-René des Forêts , 6-7 (1991), pp. 300-301.
personal data
SURNAME Forêts, Louis-René des
ALTERNATIVE NAMES des Forêts, Louis-René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2000
Place of death Paris