Remy de Gourmont
Remy de Gourmont (born April 4, 1858 in Bazoches-au-Houlme near Argentan , † September 27, 1915 in Paris ) was a French writer , co-founder and long-time employee of the Mercure de France and a major theorist of symbolism ; he became known for literary and philosophical essays and also wrote novels , short stories , poetry and plays . He was an important influence on Blaise Cendrars .
biography
Remy de Gourmont was the son of Auguste-Marie de Gourmont, Comte de Gourmont, and his wife Mathilde de Montfort. In 1866 the family moved to Villedieu-les-Poêles . He later studied law in Caen and received his bachelor's degree in law in 1879 . After graduating, Gourmont moved to Paris. From 1881 he was employed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France , while also writing articles in the French daily newspapers Le Monde and Le Contemporain. His interest lay in ancient literature, in the footsteps of Gustave Kahn . During this time he met and fell in love with Berthe Courrière, model and heir to the sculptor Auguste Clésinger . Remy de Gourmont began a literary alliance with Joris-Karl Huysmans , and in 1889 he became one of the founders of Mercure de France . In 1891 he published a political pamphlet called Le Joujou Patriotisme , in which he argued that France and Germany had an aesthetic culture in common and called for rapprochement between the two countries - in contrast to the nationalists in the French government. This political essay led to his dismissal from the Bibliothèque nationale de France . The later years were marked by illness and depression. In 1915 Remy de Gourmont died of a stroke and was buried on Père Lachaise . His longtime partner Berthe Courrière was considered the sole heir, but she also died a few months later.
Works (selection)
prose
- Sixtine, roman de la vie cérébrale
- Lettres à l'Amazone , for Natalie Clifford Barney
- Le latin mystique
- Le joujou patriotisme
- Le Livre des masques
- Esthetique de la langue française
- Physique de l'amour
Poems
- Litanies de la rose
- Les Saintes du paradis
- Divertissements
Individual evidence
- ^ Yves Lecouturier: Célèbres de Normandie . Orep Editions, 2007, ISBN 978-2-915762-13-6 , pp. 17 . (French)
- ↑ This includes "Le Livre des Masques", a collection of author biographies with woodcut portraits by Félix Vallotton . Initially in 1896 and 1898 and later in numerous other editions, a Russian translation was published in 1913 (see Volkmar Dietsch: Russische Moderne im Buch , p. 26 ff. Saarbrücken 2015, ISBN 978-3-942701-20-4 )
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gourmont, Remy de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Remy de DuMont |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer, co-founder and long-time employee of the "Mercure de France" |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Argentan , Lower Normandy |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1915 |
| Place of death | Paris |