Victor Margueritte
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Victor Margueritte (born December 1, 1866 in Blida , Algeria , † March 23, 1942 in Monestier , Allier department , France) was a French writer .
life and work
His father was General Jean-Auguste Margueritte (1823–1870), his brother the writer Paul Margueritte (1860–1918), with whom Victor Margueritte worked closely. He wrote various theater " charades " and created with his brother pantomime La peur .
Victor Margueritte has been campaigning for the social and political goals of the feminist movement since the turn of the century . With his novel La Garçonne from 1922 he created a heroine who became the epoch-defining symbol of female emancipation and sexual liberation of the twenties. It is the first part of a trilogy called La Femme en chemin . The book was so shocking that Margueritte was released from the Légion d'honneur . Shortly after the novel was published, the Belgian director Arman Du Plessy (1883–1924) made a film adaptation that was immediately banned by the censors. The novel has been translated into twelve languages and was one of the greatest book successes in the interwar period; In 1927 the number of copies sold had exceeded a million. The novel was widely discussed in the press by contemporary intellectuals. Paul Colin wrote in 1923 in Europe , one of the leading literary magazines of the time, that La Garçonne was a literary post-war event. In 1926 Margueritte reworked his novel for the theater. The play premiered on July 6th at the Théâtre de Paris . This was followed by film adaptations in 1936 and 1957.
literature
- Jean Guirec: Victor Margueritte. Son oeuvre. Portrait et autograph. Document for the history of the literature of France. (= Collection Critique. Célébrités Contemporaines. Série 1, 6). Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Critique, Paris 1929.
- Gian Francesco Malipiero : Cinq mélodies. Senart, Paris 1918.
- Eve Margueritte, Lucie Paul Margueritte: Deux frères, deux soeurs. Deux époques littéraires. sn, Paris 1951.
- Edmond Pilon: Paul et Victor Margueritte. E. Sansot & Cie, Paris 1905, ( digitized version ).
- Patrick de Villepin: Victor Margueritte. La vie scandaleuse de l'auteur de La garçonne. Bourin, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-87686-098-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Victor Margueritte in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Victor Margueritte in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Literature by and about Victor Margueritte in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Works by Victor Margueritte in the Gutenberg-DE project
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul and Victor Margueritte: Nos Tréteaux: Charades de Victor Margueritte, pantomimes de Paul Margueritte (Paris: Les Bibliophiles Fantaisistes, 1910).
- ↑ French: "un événement, et même événement littéraire d'après-guerre."
- ↑ Julia Drost: La Garçonne. Changes in a literary figure , Wallstein Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-89244-681-1 , p. 31, p. 7f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Margueritte, Victor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Blida , Algeria |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 1942 |
| Place of death | Monestier , Allier Department, France |