Marcel Arland

Marcel Arland (1929)

Marcel Arland (born July 5, 1899 in Varennes-sur-Amance ( Haute-Marne ); † January 12, 1986 in Saint-Sauveur-sur-École ( Seine-et-Marne )) was a French writer and literary critic, who especially as co-editor of the respected Nouvelle Revue Française had considerable influence on contemporary French literature. Even influenced by role models such as Pascal , Dostoyevsky and André Gide , he joins the guard of French moralists with his novels and short stories. He presents complex emotional situations astutely but always cautiously. In 1929 he received the Prix Goncourt for his novel L'ordre (German: Holy Order) and the Grand Prix de Litterature in 1952 for his complete works .

Life

Arland came from a petty bourgeois rural background. After the early death of his father and a joyless youth, he studied literature and philology in Paris . As a penniless student, he took over the editing of the Bulletin de l'Association générale des étudiants in 1919 . Later he tried his luck with René Crevel and Roger Vitrac as the editor of a Dadaist literary magazine called Aventure . From 1924 to 1929 he taught at the Collège du Montcel in Jouy-en Josas, but also worked as a writer. Later, like his friend Jean Paulhan, he supported the literary branch of the Resistance . In 1953 he was involved in the re-establishment of the Nouvelle Revue Française - which collaborated with the fascist forces during the Second World War - in the old spirit; From 1968 to 1977 he was editor-in-chief. Since 1968 he has been a member of the Académie française .

Works

French

Terres étrangères (Gallimard, 1923)
La route obscure (Gallimard-NRF, 1924)
Étienne (Gallimard, 1924)
Monique (Gallimard, 1926)
Les Âmes en peine (Gallimard, 1927)
Où le Coeur se partage (Gallimard 1929)
L'Ordre (Gallimard, 1929)
Edith (Gallimard-NRF, 1929)
Une époque (Roberto A. Corrêa, 1930)
Essais critiques (Gallimard-NRF, 1931)
Antarès (Gallimard, 1932)
Les Vivants (Gallimard, 1934)
La Vigie (Gallimard, 1935)
Les Plus Beaux de nos jours (Gallimard, 1937)
Terre natale (Gallimard, 1938)
La Grâce (Gallimard, 1941)
Sur une terre menacée (Stock, Delamain & Boutelleau, 1941)
Anthologie de la poésie française - Choix et commentaires par Marcel Arland (Stock, Delamain & Boutelleau, 1942)
Zélie dans le désert (Gallimard, 1944)
Le promeneur (Editions du Pavois, 1944)
Il faut de tout pour faire un monde (Gallimard, 1947)
Sidobre (Éditions de Minuit, 1949)
La prose française - anthology, histoire et critique d'un art (Stock, Delamain & Boutelleau, 1951)
Essais et nouveaux essais critiques (Gallimard, 1952)
La Consolation du voyageur (Stock, Delamain & Boutelleau, 1952), dts. The Consolation of Travelers: Autobiography
La grâce d'écrire (Gallimard-NRF, 1955)
A perdre haleine (Gallimard-NRF, 1960)
Je vous écris ... (Grasset, 1960; droits repris en 1968 par Gallimard-NRF)
L'Eau et le feu (Gallimard, 1960)
Je vous écris… La nuit et les sources (Grasset, 1963; droits repris en 1968 par Gallimard-NRF)
Le Grand Pardon (Gallimard, 1965)
Carnets de Gilbert (Gallimard-NRF, 1966)
La musique des Anges (Gallimard-NRF, 1967)
Attendez l'aube (Gallimard, 1970)
Avons-nous vécu? (Gallimard-NRF, 1977)
Ce fut ainsi (Gallimard-NRF, 1979)
Lumière du soir (Gallimard-NRF, 1983)

German editions

Holy Order , Berlin 1932 (Rowohlt)
Home earth , Dessau 1942 (Rauch)
From love , Düsseldorf 1949 (Diederichs)
The Law of Order , Zurich 1955 (Gutenberg Book Guild)

literature

Alvin Allan Eustis: Marcel Arland, Benjamin Crémieux , Ramon Fernandez - trois critiques de la “Nouvelle revue française”. Nouvelles Éditions Debresse, Paris 1961.
Jean Duvignaud: Arland. Gallimard , Paris 1962.
Alain Bosquet: En compagnie de Marcel Arland. Gallimard, Paris 1973.
Winfried Engler : Lexicon of French Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 388). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-520-38802-2 .
Flora Bauer: Techniques of the final design in Marcel Arland's short stories. Master thesis . University of Graz , Graz 2011. - Full text online (PDF) .

Remarks

↑ Arland is considered an excellent stylist. In his lacony he reminds some critics of Benjamin Constant . Arland's main theme is the endeavor of man to bring self and world into harmony, which turns out to be in vain, especially in love.

Web links

Literature by and about Marcel Arland in the catalog of the German National Library
Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)

personal data
SURNAME	Arland, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French writer and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH	July 5, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Varennes-sur-Amance , Haute-Marne department
DATE OF DEATH	January 12, 1986
Place of death	Saint-Sauveur-sur-École , Seine-et-Marne department

[1] Arland is considered an excellent stylist. In his lacony he reminds some critics of Benjamin Constant . Arland's main theme is the endeavor of man to bring self and world into harmony, which turns out to be in vain, especially in love.