Lucius Keller

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Luzius Georg Keller (born June 9, 1938 in Zurich ) is a Swiss Romance scholar and Proust specialist.

Live and act

Keller received his doctorate under Georges Poulet at the University of Zurich in 1964 and qualified as a professor in 1969. He was from 1970 exceptional , later until his retirement in 2003 full professor of French literature from the Renaissance to the present day at the University of Zurich. He is known as a Proust translator. He has completely revised Eva Rechel-Mertens ' translation of Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time , translated some of it anew and provided it with detailed comments.

Proust manual

In 2010 his extensive encyclopedic handbook on the work of Marcel Proust, a revised, updated and greatly expanded version of the dictionnaire Marcel Proust published by Annick Bouillaget and Brian C. Rogers, was published in 2010 .

The incomparably larger size of the book shows the rapid development of international Proust research. The book provides comprehensive information about the life, work, impact and interpretation of Marcel Proust. In over 800 entries you can look up both the places in which Proust lived - Paris, Auteuil, Illiers, St. Moritz, Evian, Venice, Cabourg - as well as those places that were imagined - Combray, Balbec, Doncieres - in the novel by are of particular importance. It provides information about Proust's circle of acquaintances and friends, his relationships with authors, artists and composers whom he knew or to whom he refers in his novel, as well as Proust's reception worldwide.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Piranèse et les romantiques Français. Corti, Paris 1966 (dissertation).
  • Palingene, Ronsard, you Bartas. Trois études sur la poetry cosmologique de la Renaissance. Francke, Bern 1974 (habilitation thesis).
  • Read Proust. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-518-38339-6 .
  • Proust in the Engadine. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-458-16900-8 .
  • Proust et l'Alphabet. Ed. Zoé, Carouge 2012, ISBN 978-2-88182-866-9 .
  • Proust 1913. Snapshots with flashbacks and flashbacks. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-455-50216-9 .
  • Lire, traduire, éditer Proust. Paris: Garnier 2015. ISBN 978-2-81244937-6

Translations

  • Marcel Proust: In search of lost time. Translated from the French by Eva Rechel-Mertens . Revised by Luzius Keller. 7 volumes. Frankfurt edition. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1994-2001.
  • Quarta lingua quadrophon. Four miniatures by Luzius Keller for four Romansh poems and their translation into German, French and Italian. Ed. By Urs Engeler . Roughbook, Zurich 2011.

Editing

  • Translation and imitation in European Petrarkism. Studies and texts (= studies on general and comparative literary studies. Vol. 7.) Metzler, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-476-00296-9 .
  • Marcel Proust encyclopedia. Handbook on Life, Work, Effect. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-455-09561-6 .
  • Modern and Contemporary Swiss Poetry: An Anthology. Ed. and with an introduction by Luzius Keller. Dalkey Archive Press, [Champaign, Ill.] 2012, ISBN 978-1-56478-788-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 17th edition (1996). Vol. 1, p. 684.
  2. ↑ Thomas Hunkeler: Three Romanists. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 4, 2003, accessed August 16, 2015.
  3. ↑ Annick Bouillaget, Brian C. Rogers (Ed.): Dictionnaire Marcel Proust. Champion, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-7453-0956-0 .
  4. ↑ Jürgen Ritte: companion in the pharaoh's grave. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 23, 2010, accessed August 15, 2015.
  5. ^ Reviews at Perlentaucher , accessed on August 15, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keller, Lucius Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Romance Studies
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich