René Etiemble

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

• 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

1. ^ Bulletin des amis d'André Gide. 2002, p. 129.
2. ^ René Étiemble - Balzan Prize Comparative Literature. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .