Maurice Nadeau

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Daughter Claire Nadeau, Maurice Nadeau and Tiphaine Samoyault on April 26, 2011 in Odéon during the recordings on the occasion of his 100th birthday on May 21 of the year for France Culture

Maurice Nadeau (born May 21, 1911 in Paris , † June 16, 2013 ibid) was a French writer , literary critic , editor and publisher .

He founded Les Lettres nouvelles in 1953 and was editor of the well-known French literary magazine La Quinzaine littéraire since 1966 . A standard work on Surrealism is his book Histoire du surréalisme , which has been translated into several languages and was first published in 1945 by Éditions du Seuil in Paris. In 1984 he founded the Éditions Maurice Nadeau publishing house.

Life

Maurice Nadeau was a war orphan; he attended school in Saint-Cloud , where he came into contact with politics. In 1930 he became a member of the French communist party PCF , from which he was expelled in 1932. He then joined the Ligue communiste de France, which was headed by Pierre Naville . During these years he met Louis Aragon , André Breton , Jacques Prévert and Benjamin Péret .

As a professor, Nadeau taught from 1936 to 1945 and worked with Breton on the magazine Clé . During the occupation of France by the National Socialists , he joined the Resistance and was able to escape deportation . In 1945 he published his book on Surrealism, Histoire du Surréalisme , which is still a reference work in the present.

During the period of liberation from 1944, Nadeau worked for seven years for the journal of the Resistance, Combat , which was headed by Albert Camus . He was responsible for the literary section and got to know authors such as Georges Bataille , René Char , Henri Michaux , Claude Simon and Henry Miller ; he also began to work on the publication of the oeuvre of the Marquis de Sade and stood up for the criticized writer Louis-Ferdinand Celine .

A long period of collaboration in publishing houses and magazines followed. For example, Nadeau was a literary critic at Mercure de France , France-Observateur , L'Express , worked for the publisher Éditions Julliard, where he published the literary magazine Les Lettres nouvelles from 1953 to 1976 . With Jean-Paul Sartre he signed and distributed the manifesto of the 121st in 1960 during the Algerian war . From 1965 to 1977 he worked for the Robert Denoël publishing house and later for Robert Laffont.

On March 15, 1966, Nadeau and François Erval published the first issue of the literary magazine La Quinzaine littéraire, which has been published twice a month to this day, the 1000th edition of which was published in 2009. The title Les Lettres Nouvelles became the name of his publisher from 1977, which was renamed Éditions Maurice Nadeau in 1984.

Maurice Nadeau died in Paris at the age of 102.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Histoire du surréalisme , Le Seuil, 1945 & Points, Seuil 1970
    • History of Surrealism , transl. Karl Heinz Laier. Rowohlt, Reinbek, 6th edition 2002, ISBN 978-3-499-55437-7
  • Ed. By Marquis de Sade : Œuvres , précédé de Exploration de Sade , La Jeune Parque, 1947. (Selection and introductory essay by Nadeau)
  • Documents surréalistes , Le Seuil, 1948. (Also as an appendix in Histoire du Surréalisme of the 1969 edition)
  • Littérature présente , Corréa, 1953
  • Michel Leiris et la quadrature du Cercle. Essaie. Julliard, 1963 & Maurice Nadeau, 2002
  • To understand the work. Epilogue to Charles Baudelaire , The Artificial Paradises. Rowohlt Verlag , o. O. [Hamburg] 1964, pp. 121-139
  • Edited by Gustave Flaubert , Œuvres complètes et Correspondance , 18 volumes, Rencontre, Lausanne 1965–1983
  • With Robert Kanters: Anthologie de la poésie française , 12 volumes, Rencontre, Lausanne 1966/1967
  • Le Roman français depuis la guerre , essay, Gallimard, 1969; Le Passeur 1992
  • Gustave Flaubert, Écrivain , Denoël, 1969; Maurice Nadeau, 1980
  • Album Gide , Bibliothèque de la Pléiade at Gallimard, 1985
  • Grâces leur soient rendues , Albin Michel, 1990
  • Une vie en littérature. Conversations avec Jacques Sojcher , Complexe, 2002
  • Sade, l'insurrection permanente , Maurice Nadeau, 2002
  • Serviteur! souvenirs littéraires , Albin Michel, 2002
  • Journal en public , Maurice Nadeau / La Quinzaine littéraire, 2006
  • Ferdinando Scianna , Actes Sud, Avignon 2008

Movie

  • Maurice Nadeau (32 ') L'épisode 17/20 de la collection Passages , ensemble réalisé par Michel Burnier (Université de Bretagne, Brest), CNRS, 2005: online .

Web links

Commons : Maurice Nadeau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maurice Nadeau, éditeur génial et désargenté, mort à la tâche à 102 ans
  2. ↑ Grâces leur soient rendues , Albin Michel, 1990, p. 13
  3. ↑ La Quinzaine littéraire website .
  4. ↑ Quoted from Frankfurter Rundschau : Out of loyalty to Maurice Nadeau
  5. ↑ Ecouter un jeune homme de quatre-vingt-dix-sept ans, réalisé au printemps 2008: un entretien avec Maurice Nadeau. .
  6. ↑ from the French. Nadeau's essay in German only in this Rowohlt edition; still without ISBN. This afterword first appeared in the anthology "Charles Baudelaire", French, Librairie Hachette, Coll. Génies et réalités, Paris 1961 a. ö.
personal data
SURNAME Nadeau, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer, literary critic, editor and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 2013
Place of death Paris