Maurice Rostand

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Photo by Maurice Rostand, 1928

Maurice Rostand (born May 26, 1891 in Paris , † February 21, 1968 in Ville-d'Avray ) was a French writer (novels, dramas, poetry). He was the son of the playwright Edmond Rostand and the poet Rosemonde Gérard and brother of the biologist and influential intellectual Jean Rostand .

Painting portrait of Rostand by Clémentine-Hélène Dufau, 1909
Costume for M. Rostands Casanova by George Barbier

Life

As a 19-year-old Rostand published his first volume of poetry, Conversation avec la gloire, poème dialogué in 1910 . Interrupted only by the war years, numerous novels, dramas and other volumes of poetry followed in quick succession until the early 1950s.

In 1933 he became literary director of the weekly Séduction .

He was friends with Jean Cocteau and Lucien Daudet . In addition, he was one of the prominent homosexual personalities who frequented the literary salons of the interwar period .

He published his autobiography Confession d'un demi-siècle in 1948. The writer is buried in the Cimetière de Passy celebrity cemetery in Paris .

Works

Novels
  • Le pilori. roman . Flammarion, Paris 1921.
  • L 'ange du suicide. roman . Flammarion, Paris 1926.
  • L 'Homme que j'ai fait naître. roman . Flammarion, Paris 1931.
  • Le second Werther. roman . Ferenczi et fils, Paris 1932.
  • La femme qui était en lui. roman . Flammarion, Paris 1933.
stories
  • La messe de cinq heures . A. Michel, Paris 1921.
Dramas
  • La Gloire: pièce en trois actes, en vers , Illustrations, Paris 1921.
  • La Mort de Molière, poème dramatique en un acte , Illustrations, Paris 1922. First performance at Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt, 1922.
  • Le masque de fer: pièce en quatre actes, en vers , Illustrations, Paris 1923
  • Le Secret du Sphinx: pièce en 4 actes , Flammarion, Paris 1924
  • Le dernier tzar: pièce en quatre actes et cinq tableaux, en vers . Flammarion, Paris 1929.
  • Monsieur de Letoriere: Piece en Quatre Actes et Cinq Tableaux en Vers , Fasquelle, Paris 1931
  • Le procès d'Oscar Wilde: pièce en trois actes . Flammarion, Paris 1935.
  • Catherine empereur: piece en cinq tableaux . Les Éditions Théatrales, Paris 1938.
  • Charlotte et Maximilien: piece en six tableaux, en prose . Nagel, Paris 1945.
  • Madame Récamier. L'homme que j'ai tué , Nagel, Paris 1950.
Poetry
  • Conversation avec la gloire, poème dialogué , Paris 1910.
  • Poemes . E. Fasquelle, Paris 1911.
  • La Page de la vie, poèmes , Paris 1913.
  • Les insomnies. Poemes 1914-1923 , 1923.
  • Morbidezza: poésies . Flammarion, Paris 1929.
  • Il ne faut plus jamais , 1937.
  • Poèsies complètes, 1910-1948 , poetry. Flammarion, Paris 1950.
Biographies
  • La vie amoureuse de Casanova . Flammarion, Paris 1924.
  • Confession d'un demi-siècle , autobiography. 1948
  • Sarah Bernhardt , biography, Calmann-Lévy, Paris 1950

literature

  • Marcel Migeo: Les Rostand , Stock, Paris 1973. (Edmond, Rosemonde, Jean and Maurice Rostand)

Web links

Commons : Maurice Rostand  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ^ National Library Paris
  2. ↑ http://www.jeancocteau.net/bio1_en.html
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.glbtq.com
personal data
SURNAME Rostand, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer (novels, dramas, poetry)
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1968
Place of death Ville-d'Avray