Pierre-Olivier Waltz

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Pierre-Olivier Walzer (born January 4, 1915 in Porrentruy , † November 26, 2000 in Bern ) was a Swiss writer, Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Walzer studied in Lausanne and Paris. He received his doctorate in Lausanne in 1949 with the work of Paul-Jean Toulet. L'œuvre. L'écrivain (Paris 1949) and completed his habilitation in Bern in 1951 with the thesis La poésie de Valéry (Geneva 1953, 1966, 2011). From 1955 to 1985 he was full professor of French literature at the University of Bern .

Other works

  • P.-J. Toulet, Paris 1954 (Poètes d'aujourd'hui 42)
  • (Ed.) Werner Renfer, Œuvres, 3 vols., Porrentruy 1958
  • Essai sur Mallarmé, Paris 1963, 1973, 1988
  • (Ed.) Anthologie jurassienne, 2 vol., Porrentruy 1964-1965
  • La Révolution des Sept (Lautréamont, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Corbière, Cros, Nouveau, Laforgue), Neuchâtel 1970
  • (Eds.) Germain Nouveau and Lautréamont, Œuvres complètes, Paris 1970 (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade)
  • (Ed. With Jacques Lovichi) Dossier Germain Nouveau, Neuchâtel 1970
  • (Ed. With Louis Forestier) Charles Cros and Tristan Corbière, Œuvres complètes, Paris 1970 (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade)
  • Le XXe siècle I. 1896-1920, Paris 1975 (Littérature française, edited by Claude Pichois , 16 vols., Paris 1968-1978, vol. 15)
  • (Ed.) Apollinaire. The actes de la Journée Apollinaire. Université de Berne 1981, Friborg 1983
  • (Ed. With Maryke de Courten, Jean-Louis Debauve, Daniel Grojnowski and Pascal Pia) Jules Laforgue, Œuvres complètes, 3 vols., Lausanne 1986-1995
  • Paul-Jean Toulet, Lyon 1987
  • Vie des saints du Jura, Lausanne 1990
  • (Ed.) Lexicon of Swiss Literatures, Basel 1991
  • Approches I. Nouveau - Toulet - Colette - Cendrars - Apollinaire - Breton, Paris 1993
  • Vies de Charles-Albert Cingria , 3 vols., Lausanne 1993-1997
  • Approches II. Mallarmé - Valéry, Paris 1995
  • Galerie romande, Lausanne 2000 (portraits of writers)

literature

  • Orlandina Gentili, Pierre Olivier Walzer e la letteratura del Jura svizzero, Diss. Rome 1984
  • De l'Ordre et de l'aventure. Mélanges offerts à Pierre Olivier Walzer, Neuchâtel 1985
  • Les poils du côté de la fenêtre. Petit traité de discipline militaire, Genève 1994 (autobiographical)
  • Humanités provinciales, Lausanne 1999 (autobiographical)
  • Pierre-Olivier Waltz. Le paladin des lettres. Entretien avec Jean-Louis Kuffer, Lausanne 1999
  • Pierre-Olivier Walzer, in: Quarto 11, 1999 ( online ) (with picture)

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personal data
SURNAME Waltz, Pierre-Olivier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Porrentruy
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 2000
Place of death Bern