Victor Segalen

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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.
  1. Cycle des apprentissages, cycle polynésien, cycle musical et orphique, cycle des ailleurs et du bord du chemin . 1995, ISBN 2-221-06462-3 .
  2. 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).
  • Peintures . Éditions G. Crès & Cie, Paris 1916.
  • 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

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the trail of a tracker in FAZ from July 22, 2000, page V.
  2. ↑ This homage is still often added to editions in other world languages.
  3. ↑ 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
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