René Etiemble
René Etiemble , or Etiemble for short (born January 26, 1909 in Mayenne , Département Mayenne ; † January 7, 2002 in Vigny, Marville-Moutiers-Brûlé , Canton Dreux-Sud , Département Eure-et-Loir ), was a French sinologist , University professor and essayist. As a university professor at the Paris Sorbonne (1955–1978) he was one of the initiators of comparative literature or comparative literature .
Life
Etiemble attended high school in Laval and after the baccalaureate (high school), he moved to Paris to there at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand on the entrance examination for the Ecole Normale Supérieure prepare. He was admitted to the École Normale Supérieure in 1929 and obtained the agrégation de grammaire in 1932 . From 1933 to 1936 he was a scholarship holder of the Thiers Foundation .
In 1988 he received the Balzan Prize for Comparative Literature.
Works
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Le mythe de Rimbaud - Structure du mythe , Gallimard, Paris 1952,
- New edition reviewed and passages that fell victim to censorship around 1952 added: Gallimard 1961 ISBN 2-07-022260-8
- Tong Yeou Ki ou Le Nouveau Singe pèlerin , 1958, Gallimard, Paris
- Blason d'un corps , 1961, Gallimard, Paris (German from Eugen Helmlé: Praise of a body, 1970, Karl Rauch, Düsseldorf)
- Connaissons-nous la Chine? , 1964, Gallimard, Paris
- Parlez-vous franglais? , 1964, Gallimard, Paris
- Les Jésuites en Chine , 1973, Gallimard, Paris
- Quelques essais de littérature universelle , 1982, Gallimard, Paris
Web links
- Message from the French Minister for Culture and Communication, C. Tasca, on the death of Etiembles (French)
- Article by Muriel Détrie about Etiemble after his death (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Bulletin des amis d'André Gide. 2002, p. 129.
- ^ René Étiemble - Balzan Prize Comparative Literature. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
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SURNAME | Etiemble, René |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French sinologist, university professor and essayist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1909 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mayenne , Mayenne department |
DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 2002 |
Place of death | Vigny, Marville-Moutiers-Brûlé , canton Dreux-Sud, department Eure-et-Loir |