Victor Segalen
Victor Segalen , actually Joseph Ambroise Désiré Ségalen (born January 14, 1878 in Brest , Finistère department , † May 21, 1919 in Huelgoat , Finistère department), was a French writer , marine doctor , ethnologist and archaeologist .
Life
Victor Segalen studied medicine in Bordeaux . He toured French Polynesia (1903–1905) and China (1909–1914 and 1917). During a stay in the Marquesas Islands in 1903, he bought the last sketches by Paul Gauguin , who had died a few months before his arrival and which would otherwise have been destroyed. Exhausted from illness, he died in an accident in the forest of Huelgoat ( Brittany ). The Université Bordeaux II was named in his honor .
Works (selection)
- Work edition
- Œuvres complêtes . Laffont, Paris 1995.
- Cycle des apprentissages, cycle polynésien, cycle musical et orphique, cycle des ailleurs et du bord du chemin . 1995, ISBN 2-221-06462-3 .
- Cycle chinois, cycle archéologiques et sinologiques . 1999, ISBN 2-221-06705-3 .
- Novels
- The Chinese Emperor or Son of Heaven. Chronicle of the days of the ruler ("Le Fils du ciel"). Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1989, ISBN 3-596-23611-8 (former title The Son of Heaven. Novel ).
- René Leys. Roman ("René Leys"). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-518-01783-7 .
- The unthinkable. Roman ("Les Immémoriaux"). Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14508-7 .
- Poetry
- Dans une monde sonore . Édition Fata Morgana, Fontfroide-le-Haut 2010, ISBN 978-2-85194-751-2 (reprinted from the Paris 1907 edition).
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Peintures . Éditions G. Crès & Cie, Paris 1916.
- German: paintings. Prose poems . Edition Gemini, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-935978-18-7 .
- Odes . Les Arts et le Livre, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-910689-02-6 (reprint of the Paris 1926 edition).
- Steles ("Stèles"). Droschl, Graz 2000, ISBN 3-85420-540-6 (in German and French).
- Thibet . Mercure de France, Paris 1979 (reprint of the Paris 1963 edition).
- drama
- Orphée-Roi , in five acts, to be set to music by Claude Debussy . Editions G. Crès & Cie., Le théâtre d'art, Paris 1921.
- Non-fiction
- The aesthetics of the diverse. Experiment on exoticism ("Essai sur l'exotisme. Une esthétique du divers"). Qumran , Frankfurt 1983 ISBN 3-88655-183-0 & Fischer TB, Frankfurt 1994, ISBN 3-596-10108-5 .
- Departure into the land of reality (" Equipée. Voyage au pays du réel "). Fischer TB, Frankfurt 1990, ISBN 3-596-23614-2 (former title Journey into the Land of Reality )
- Briques et tuiles . Fata Morgana, Montpellier 1987 (reprint of the Montpellier 1963 edition; travel notes from China).
- China . The great statue ("Chine. La Grande Statuaire"). Qumran, Frankfurt 1986, ISBN 3-88655-213-6 (Ethno-Archaeological Study)
- New York - San Francisco - Tahiti. From the travel diary October 1902 - January 1903 (“Le Journal des Îles”). Friedenauer Presse, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-932109-44-9 .
- Paul Gauguin in his last environment (“Gauguin dans sons dernier décor”). Fischer TB, Frankfurt 1991, ISBN 3-596-10416-5 (attached: The two faces of Arthur Rimbaud )
- Les synesthésies et l'école symboliste . Fata Morgana, Montpellier 1981 (reprint of the Montpellier 1902 edition)
- Dead voices. Maori music ("Voix mortes. Musique maori "). Merve, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-88396-222-8 (attached: Giorgio Agamben : Followed by origin and forgetting )
- Vers les sinistrés du cyclone des îles Tuamotou . Fata Morgana, Fontfroide-le-Haut 1989, ISBN 2-85194-340-5 (reprint of the Montpellier 1903 edition)
- Essays
- Homage to Gauguin . German speaking Introduction to Paul Gauguin, letters to Georges-Daniel de Monfreid. Translated by Hans Jakob. Kiepenheuer, Potsdam 1920
- Letters
- Correpondance . Fayard, Paris 2004, ISBN 978-2-213-61947-7 in 3 vol.
- Trahison fidèle. Correspondance 1907-1918 . Du Seuil, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-02-008739-1 .
literature
- Henry Bouillier: Victor Segalen . Mercure de France, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-7152-1383-2
- Camille Coldrey: Victor Segalen et l'interruption de la langue tahitienne . Harmattan, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-296-08671-5 (Lettres du Pacifique; 15)
- Marie Dollé: Victor Segalen. Le voyageur incertain; biography . Édition Aden, Croissy-Beaubourg 2008, ISBN 978-2-84840-086-0
- Charles Fordick: Victor Segalen and the aesthetics of diversity. Journeys between cultures . University Press, Oxford 2000, ISBN 0-19-816014-3 .
- Dominique Gournay: Pour une poétique de "Thibet" by Victor Segalen . PUF, Besançon 2004, ISBN 2-84867-063-0
- Dima Hamdan: Victor Segalen et Henri Michaux. Two visages de l'exotisme dans la poésie du XXe siècle . University Press, Paris 2004, ISBN 88-8229-332-7
- Elodie Laügen: L'orient du signe. Rêves de dérives chez Victor Segalen, Henri Michaux et Emile Cioran . Lang, Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-3-03911-402-3
- Keiling Wei: Victor Segalen and Claude Ollier . Harmattan, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-296-04730-3
- Maria Zinfert: On the poetics of inversion. The novels of Victor Segalen . Studies, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-89129-118-3 (also dissertation, FU Berlin 2003)
- Wolfgang Geiger: The appeal of the incomprehensible. Victor Segalen's aesthetic of the foreign. In Zs. Traces in Art and Society, N ° 15, Hamburg, April – May 1986, Ed. Jochen Hiltmann , pp. 35–36 & 41–42 ISSN 0176-7240
Web links
Commons : Victor Segalen - album with pictures, videos and audio files
- Literature by and about Victor Segalen in the catalog of the German National Library
- The Association Victor Segalen (French)
- Primary and secondary literature, links. (French sources only)
- Wolfgang Geiger
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the trail of a tracker in FAZ from July 22, 2000, page V.
- ↑ This homage is still often added to editions in other world languages.
- ↑ online: 1. see web links; 2. also readable as .doc; Access only possible via a search engine. Successor Zs. of traces. Journal for Art and Society ISSN 0344-6808
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Segalen, Victor |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer, doctor, ethnologist and archaeologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1878 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Brest |
DATE OF DEATH | May 21, 1919 |
Place of death | Le Huelgoat |