Paul Morand
Paul Morand (born March 13, 1888 in Paris , † July 23, 1976 ibid) was a French storyteller, diplomat and member of the Académie française .
Life
Morand was the son of the painter and draftsman Eugène Morand . He studied at Oxford and at the École libre des sciences politiques in Paris and embarked on a diplomatic career. From 1913 to 1916 he was legation secretary in London , 1917 in Rome , 1918 in Madrid and finally from 1919 to 1925 an employee of the French Foreign Ministry. In 1919 and 1920 he published his first literary works with the volumes of poetry Lampes à arc and Feuilles de température . His first prose work Tendres stocks , a collection of London novellas, appeared in 1921 with a foreword by Marcel Proust . Morand achieved fame with his works Ouvert la nuit (1922) and Fermé la nuit (1923). In the 1920s and 1930s, numerous other publications followed, including travel reports, novels and nouvelles.
After Nazi Germany's preliminary victory over France in World War II , Morand, known for his anti-Semitism, collaborated with the Vichy regime under Pétain as president of the influential commission for paper allocation to printing works and as president of the commission for film censorship as well as the French envoy in Bucharest (1943) and in Bern (1944). After the war ended, he preferred to remain in exile in Switzerland until 1953 .
Morand, who in 1936 failed to run for a seat in the Académie française, ran again in 1958. His candidacy was seen as a scandal by the France of the Resistance ; after a stormy meeting of the academy the election had to be canceled. Despite the continued resistance of Charles de Gaulle , he was finally given his seat in the academy in 1968 after the death of Maurice Garçon - one of his bitterest opponents.
The wealthy Morand had a passion for fast cars and was also active as a gentleman driver in the 1930s . Among other things, he competed at the Grand Prix de Pau in 1933 on a Bugatti T35B .
Works (selection)
- Lampes à arc , 1919
- Feuilles de température , 1921
- Tendres stocks , 1921 (German Amouren , ISBN 3-499-13214-1 )
- Ouvert la nuit , 1922
- Fermé la nuit , 1923
- L'Europe galante , 1925 (German lazy times , ISBN 3-921499-63-1 )
- Rien que la terre , 1926
- Magic noire , 1928
- Bouddha vivant , 1927 (Eng. The Living Buddha )
- Paris-Tombouctou , 1928
- New York , 1930
- Champions du monde , 1930
- Papiers d'identité , 1930
- Air India , 1932
- Londres , 1933
- L'Homme pressé , 1941
- Marcel Proust, souvenirs ... , 1949
- Le Flagellant de Séville , 1951 (German Flagellant of Seville )
- Hécate et ses chiens , 1954 (Eng. The possessed )
- La Folle amoureuse , 1956
- Fin de siècle , 1957
- Bains de mer, bains de rêve , 1960 (German records of a notorious swimmer , ISBN 3-936384-20-7 )
- Nouvelles d'une vie , 1965
- Ci-gît Sophie-Dorothée de Celle (German Sophie Dorothea von Celle: The story of a life and a love , ISBN 3-8032-0137-3 )
- Chroniques du XX e siècle , 1980
Film adaptations
- script
- 1933: Don Quixote
- Literary template
- 1927: The three-wing mirror ( La glace à trois faces )
- 1947: Dance without end ( The Unfinished Dance ) - based on the novel La Mort du cygne
- 1976: Milady
- 1977: The antique hunter ( L'Homme pressé )
- 1982: Words usually come too late ( Hécate )
literature
- Birgit Winterberg: literature and technology. Aspects of technical-industrial progress in the Paul Morand plant . Lang, Frankfurt 1991, ISBN 3-631-44358-7
- Pascal Louvrier: Paul Morand: Le sourire du hara-kiri . Perrin 1994, ISBN 2-262-00943-0
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paul Morand, écrivain Art déco ( Memento of the original of March 27, 2008 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. , Le Figaro v. October 14, 2007.
- ↑ The racing driver Paul Morand
- ↑ Paul Morand in his Bugatti
Web links
- Publications by and about Paul Morand in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Paul Morand collection in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Paul Morand in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Paul Morand in the German Digital Library
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
- Paul Morand in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Morand, Paul |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author, diplomat and member of the Académie française |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1888 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 1976 |
Place of death | Paris |