Saint-Georges de Bouhélier

Saint-Georges de Bouhélier ( Stéphane-Georges Lepelletier de Bouhélier , born May 19, 1876 in Rueil-Malmaison , Hauts-de-Seine department , France ; † December 20, 1947 in Montreux , Canton of Vaud , Switzerland ) was a French writer.

The son of the writer Edmond Lepelletier (1846–1913) studied in Versailles and Switzerland. He became known as the founder of a literary movement that he called naturisme and whose principles he presented in the font Élements d'une Renaissance française and distributed in his magazine Revue naturiste , founded in 1897 . She distanced herself from French symbolism , strived for clarity and simplicity of expression and sought, in de Bouhéler's words, “the nature of things, their principle, their fundamental reality”. In the late 19th century, she influenced writers such as Émile Zola and André Gide .

In addition to novels and several volumes of poetry, De Bouhélier wrote mainly plays.

Works

• Eglé ou le concerts champêtres , poems, 1897
• La Victoire , play, 1898
• Élements d'une Renaissance française , 1899
• La route noire , novel, 1900
• Histoire de Lucie, fille perdue et criminelle , Roman, 1902
• Les Chants de la Vie ardente , poems, 1902
• Un Roi sans Couronne , play, 1906
• Carnaval des enfants , play, 1910
• La Romance de l'Homme , poems, 1912
• Sang de Danton , play, 1931
• Le Printemps d'une Génération , 1946
• Chant de la liberté , play, 1945

literature

• Patrick L. Day: Saint-Georges de Bouhelier's Naturisme. An Anti-Symbolist Movement in Late-Nineteenth-Century Poetry , New York 2001, ISBN 978-0-8204-2731-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Saint-Georges de Bouhélier in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Saint-Georges de Bouhélier. Entry in the directory of the Bibliothèque nationale de France of April 29, 2013 (French, accessed October 6, 2014).