Paul-Alexandre Arnoux

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Paul-Alexandre Arnoux (born November 27, 1884 in Digne-les-Bains , † January 5, 1973 in Paris ) was a French writer and translator (for example from Goethe's Faust II and Calderón's Das Leben ein Traum ). Although he is praised in professional circles as a masterful stylist, Arnoux himself has not yet been translated into German (2010).

life and work

The son of a teacher and a school inspector studied law in Lyon from 1902. In 1904 he met the actor, director and later teacher at the Paris Conservatory, Charles Dullin , with whom he would have a lifelong friendship and collaboration. From 1906 Arnoux is employed in Paris in the prefecture of the Seine. After his first poems and dramas, he made his novel debut in 1912 with Didier Flaboche . In 1913 he married the Spaniard Amalia Isabel Enet (who died in 1938). In the same year Arnoux published his drama La belle et la bête (Beauty and the Beast) in Belgium , which at least partially inspired Jean Cocteau to make the famous film of the same name (see Once Upon a Time ). Arnoux's experiences in the trenches of the First World War are worth it. a. in the novel Indice 33 (1922), for which he received the Prix ​​Renaissance de la Nouvelle . From 1922 onwards, Arnoux became editor-in-chief of the cinema magazine Pour vous . During the Second World War he worked as a war correspondent. From 1946 he also worked for the radio. In 1947 he was appointed to the Académie Goncourt . After the Grand Prix National des Lettres for his complete works (1956) he also received the Grand Prix National du théâtre for his dramatic oeuvre. The versatile author died of a brain hemorrhage in 1973. For the Brockhaus Encyclopedia , Arnoux knew how to combine imagination and a wealth of sensations with precise observation and refined elegance. Other connoisseurs particularly value his talent for “folkloric” novel subjects.

Works

Poetry

  • L'allée des mortes , 1906
  • Au grand vent , 1909
  • Cent sept quatrains , 1944

Novels

  • La mort de Pan, pièce montée par Antoine à l'Odéon , 1909
  • Didier Flaboche , 1912
  • Abisag ou l'Église transportée par la foi , 1918
  • C'est le Cabaret, recueil de nouvelles de guerre , 1919
  • Indice 33 , 1920
  • La nuit de Saint-Barnabé , 1921
  • Écoute s'il pleut , 1923
  • Le règne du bonheur , 1924
  • Suite variée , 1925
  • Le chiffre , 1926
  • Les gentilshommes de ceinture , 1928
  • Carnet de route du juif errant , 1930
  • Merlin l'enchanteur , 1931
  • Poésie du Hasard , 1934
  • Ki-Pro-Ko , 1935
  • Le rossignol napolitain , 1937
  • A l'autre bout de l'arc en ciel , 1940
  • Rêveries d'un policier amateur , 1945
  • Hélène et les guerres , 1945
  • Algorithms , 1948 (inspired by mathematician Evariste Galois )
  • Double chance , 1959

Dramas

  • La belle et la bete , 1913
  • Huon de Bordeaux , 1922
  • Petite lumière et l'ourse , 1923
  • Les Taureaux , 1947
  • L'amour des trois oranges , 1947
  • Flamenca , 1965

Essays

  • Romancero moresque , 1921
  • La légende du cid campéador , 1922
  • Haute Provence , 1926
  • Rencontres avec Richard Wagner , 1927
  • Cinema , 1929
  • Tristan Corbière , 1929
  • Paris sur Seine , 1939
  • Journal d'exil , 1944
  • Rhône mon fleuve , 1944
  • Paris ma grand'ville , 1949
  • Contacts allemands , 1950

Autobiographical

  • Bilan provisoire , 1955

Arnoux also wrote numerous scripts, including for Don Quichotte (1939) and Les derniers jours de Pompéi (The last days of Pompeii, 1950)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patrick Guay even calls him a descendant of Jules Renard ; he emphasizes Arnoux's wealth of words and images, s. to this website  ( page no longer available , searching web archives )  Info: The link is automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 28, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / wwwens.uqac.ca  
  2. ↑ The volume in question is from 1987

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personal data
SURNAME Arnoux, Paul-Alexandre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Digne-les-Bains
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1973
Place of death Paris