Lydie Salvayre

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Lydie Salvayre (2014)

Lydie Salvayre (née Arjona ; * 1948 in Autainville , Loir-et-Cher department ) is a French doctor and writer . Her works have been translated into more than 20 languages. In 2014 she was awarded the Prix ​​Goncourt for her novel Pas pleurer .

Life

Lydie Arjona grew up as the daughter of escaped Spanish Republicans in Auterive near Toulouse . Her mother comes from Catalonia , her father from Andalusia . With Spanish as her mother tongue , she learned French in the crèche . After graduating from Bac , she studied modern literature and Spanish at the University of Toulouse . She completed a medical degree in 1969 and specialized in psychiatry . In Marseille and in Bouc-Bel-Air she worked in psychiatry until the end of the 1970s. After her divorce in 1983, Lydie Salvayre moved to Paris and worked as a pediatrician in a practice in Argenteuil .

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Her first literary works appeared in regional magazines in the early 1980s, and her first novel La déclaration (1990) received the Prix ​​Hermès du premier roman debutant award . In her study from 2002 Brigitte Louichon worked out the nature of the various forms of subversion with which Salvayre exerts pressure on the conventions of oral speech (“que Salvayre fair subir aux conventions des discours oraux”): Either it builds intimate public discourses Aspects from a private life or she uses rhetorical patterns and language registers for oral speech that could be assigned to the written language or even the literary language. Salvayre's intention, according to Louichon, is to give a voice to those who have been deprived of their own voice. Since her voices in Salvayre still lack credibility, the author equips the voices with all the power that literature has at its disposal.

In addition to novels, Salvayre has also published plays since 2002 . The novel Anthem (2011) is based on the life of Jimi Hendrix . In 2014, her novel Pas pleurer, about her mother's life, was awarded the Prix Goncourt.

Salvayre's works have been translated into more than twenty languages.

La Vie commune (1991)

Suzanne is around 60 and tells in a monologue what has happened to her recently at work: A new girl , with whom she now has to share her office, robs her nerve because she is different. And because she's younger and knows how to use a computer. In this agonizing situation, the reader is made to sympathize with both sides.

Pas pleurer (2014)

In Pas pleurer , historical events from the Spanish Civil War are intertwined with the extraordinary story of 15-year-old Montse during the anarchist summer of 1936 in Barcelona: Because two young people are different in their social and political origins, they come during this time despite their love for each other not together. The novel is based on personal stories from the life of the author's Catalan mother as well as eyewitness accounts of the cruel persecution of the communist population with the full consent of the church representatives, the course of which Georges Bernanos describes in The Great Cemeteries under the Moon (1938). The example of the brother of Montse, Josep, is also used to recall lynching activities between Republicans. The title of the novel comes from a letter from the Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva .

Style and reading experience

Two perspectives can be heard intertwined: the contemporary witness Bernanos is disgusted and denounces how the nationalists terrorize “the bad poor” (“les mauvais pauvres”), while the then young contemporary witness Montse, herself “mauvaise pauvre”, himself hardly remembered, except that these inspiring experiences at the beginning of the liberation movement were among the most intense of her life. Two ways of speaking, two visions that coincide in a strange way with our present, which expresses Lydie Salvayre's narrative art with all its might: between violence and lightness, between brutality and sensitivity. The characters in the novel appear strongly exaggerated in their personality, which the author justifies with the fact that personal attitudes, religious as well as political, become radicalized in a time of civil war. Salvayre's ability is carried by a prose that on the one hand appears flawless and on the other hand is able to hit you hard in a cheerful tone.

reception

Salvayre's works have a permanent place in contemporary French literature.

Awards

  • Prix ​​Hermès du premier roman, 1990, La déclaration
  • Prix ​​November , 1997, La Compagnie des specters
  • Prix ​​François-Billetdoux, 2009, BW
  • Prix ​​Goncourt , 2014, Pas pleurer

Works (selection)

prose
  • La Déclaration , Roman 1990
  • La vie commune , novel 1991
  • La Médaille , novel 1993
  • La puissance des mouches , novel 1995
    • The power of flies , German by Renate Nentwig, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2001. ISBN 3-608-93013-2
  • La compagnie des specters , novel 1997
    • The weight of memory , German by Renate Nentwig, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1999. ISBN 3-608-93436-7
  • La conférence de Cintagabelle , 1999
  • Les belles âmes , novel 2000
  • Contre , 2002
  • Et que les vers mangent le boeuf mort , Essays 2002
  • Passage à l'ennemie , Roman 2003
  • La méthode Mila , novel 2005
  • Quelques conseils utiles aux élèves huissiers , Essays 2005
  • Portrait de l'écrivain en animal domestique , Roman 2007
  • BW , novel 2009
  • Petit traité d'éducation lubrique , 2010
  • Anthem , novel 2011 (based on the life of Jimi Hendrix )
  • Sept Femmes. Emily Bronte, Marina Tsvetaeva, Virginia Woolf, Colette, Sylvia Plath, Ingeborg Bachmann, Djuna Barnes , 2013
  • Pas pleurer , 2014
Plays
  • La Compagnie des specters , 2002
  • La Puissance des mouches , 2005
  • La conférence de Cintagabelle , 2005
  • Les Belles âmes , 2008
  • Quelques conseils aux élèves huissiers , 2011

literature

  • Brigitte Louichon, “Lydie Salvayre. Parler au nom d'Olympe ”, in: Nouvelles écrivaines: nouvelles voix? , sous la direction de Nathalie Morello and Catherine Rodgers. Table of contents Rodopi, Amsterdam 2002, ISBN 90-420-1043-6 , pp. 309-325
  • Special Section: Contemporary Novelist Lydie Salvayre , in: SubStance 33,2 (2004) Contents
  • Marie-Pascale Huglo, The Salvayre Method , in: Substance 35,3 (2006), pp. 35-50

Web links

Commons : Lydie Salvayre  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La francesa d'origen català Lydie Salvayre guanya el premi Goncourt per un llibre sobre la Guerra Civil espanyola , vilaweb.cat , 5 November 2014
  2. ↑ a b c d e Marianne Grosjean, Lydie Salvayre remporte le Prix Goncourt pour Pas pleurer (interview with the author), Tribune de Genève , last updated on November 5, 2014
  3. ^ A b Lydie Salvayre , France Inter , October 2014
  4. ↑ Brigitte Louichon, “Lydie Salvayre. Parler au nom d'Olympe ”, in: Nouvelles écrivaines: nouvelles voix? , sous la direction de Nathalie Morello et Catherine Rodgers, Rodopi, Amsterdam 2002, pp. 309-325
  5. ^ A b Florence Gould in conversation with Olivier Barrot: French Literature in the Making: Lydie Salvayre , La Maison Française / New York University, 2012
  6. ↑ a b c Pas pleurer , babelio.com , October / December 2014
  7. ↑ a b c Sebastien Lapaque, Lydie Salvayre remporte le prix Goncourt avec Pas pleurer , Le Figaro , August 21, 2014, updated November 5, 2014
  8. ↑ France's most important literary prize: Prix Goncourt for Lydie Salvayre , Der Spiegel , November 5, 2014
  9. ↑ Don't cry , in Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 6, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Salvayre, Lydie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arjona, Lydie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French medic and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Autainville , France