Roland Dorgelès

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Roland Dorgelès (1923)

Roland Dorgelès (born June 15, 1885 in Amiens , † March 18, 1973 in Paris ) was a French journalist, adventurer and writer . His real name was Roland Lécavelé, Dorgelès just his pseudonym .

Live and act

After a childhood in the banlieue of Paris , Dorgelès attended the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and frequented literary circles in Montmartre and soon made a name for himself.

The painting edited by Boronali (Lolo)

In 1910 the Salon des Indépendants exhibited a painting by an Italian named Joachim-Raphaël Boronali entitled Sunset over the Adriatic - a landscape with tangled lines. Dorgelès, one of the initiators of the action, later admitted that these were produced in the painting of a donkey's tail. The donkey was called Lolo and belonged to the owner of the cabaret Le Lapin Agile . A collector bought the work for four hundred francs. The debate in the showroom and the press reports are said to have fluctuated between rejection and enthusiasm. The details can no longer be determined today. It was an attack on the entire avant-garde. The case therefore kept the art world busy for years and decades to come. Two years later, in 1912, an exhibition called Donkey's Tail opened in Moscow .

After the experience of the First World War , he wrote the novel Les Croix de bois in 1919 , with which he became famous. Until 1920 he published articles in the newspaper Le Canard enchaîné and later became famous for foreign reports. He also worked for the magazines Sourire , Fantasio and Paris-Journal .

In 1923 he married Hania Routchine. Sur la route mandarine (1925) was written after a trip through Indochina . On the other hand, he wrote Partir after a trip to Djibouti . In 1929 he was elected President of the Académie Goncourt and held this post until his death in 1973. Dorgelès will be remembered primarily for his books on the Montmarte bohemia .

Works

  • Dernière Relève
  • Les Croix de bois (Prix Femina, 1919)
  • Le Cabaret de la Belle femme (1919)
  • Les Veillées du Lapin agile (1920)
  • Saint Magloire (1922)
  • Le Réveil des morts (1923)
  • Sur la route mandarine (1925)
  • Partir (1926)
  • La Caravane sans chameaux (1928)
  • Le Château des brouillards (1932)
  • Si c'était vrai?
  • Quand j'étais Montmartrois
  • Vive la liberté! (1937)
  • Return to the front
  • Sous le casque blanc
  • Route des tropiques
  • Bouquet de bohème
  • Bleu Horizon (1949)
  • La Drôle de Guerre (1939-1940)
  • Portraits sans retouches
  • Au beau temps de la butte
  • Tout est à vendre
  • Le Marquis de la dèche
  • Retour au front (1940)
  • Carte d'identité (1945)
  • Vacances forcées (1945)
  • À bas l'argent (1965)
  • La banane empoisonnée (1967)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Die kleine Enzyklopädie , Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich, 1950, Volume 1, page 378
  2. An art joke with consequences - The great Eselei of 1910 - faz.net, September 17, 2010 : Werner Spies: The great Eselei of 1910 , accessed on May 9, 2015
  3. Albert Camus : The first man . German by Uli Aumüller. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1996, p. 169