Aloisius Bertrand , as well as Louis Bertrand , actually Louis Jacques Napoleon Bertrand ( fr. Louis Jacques Napoléon Bertrand, Aloysius Bertrand ; April 20, 1807 , Cheva , Piedmont , - April 29, 1841 , Paris , France ) - French writer, founder of the genre poem in prose .
| Aloiziyus Bertrand | |
|---|---|
| Louis Jacques Napoléon Bertrand | |
| Birth name | Louis Jacques Napoléon Bertrand |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Cheva , Piedmont |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Paris , France |
| Citizenship | France |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Language of Works | |
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Biography
The father is a Frenchman, an officer of the gendarmerie , the mother is Italian. Since 1815 , after the resignation of the father of the family, the Bertrains lived in Dijon . Here Louis graduated from college and began publishing as a writer. In 1828 - 1830 he lived in Paris, met with the circle of romantics ( Victor Hugo , Charles Nodier , Sainte-Beuve ). Published in the press of Paris and Dijon, but his poems and dramas were not successful. From 1833 he settled again in Paris, where he lived and died in the deepest poverty. He died of tuberculosis in the hospital, without seeing his main book printed.
Since 1847, his remains rest in the cemetery of Montparnasse .
General Ledger
The book of stylized historical fiction novels "Gaspard from Darkness: Fantasies in the manner of Rembrandt and Callot " was published in 1842 by a friend of the deceased poet, sculptor David d'Ange, with the support of Saint-Beuve and with his foreword. She gave rise to the development of a new literary genre - prose poems.
Posthumous recognition
Baudelaire gave a high assessment of the book by Bertrand: he turned to the genre opened by Bertrand in his book Paris Spleen ( 1869 ), and contributed to the new publication Gaspard of Darkness in 1868 . The originality of Bertrand was appreciated by the Symbolists - Mallarmé , Villiers de Lille-Adans , Moreas , Theodore de Banville , and subsequently - Pierre Reverdy , Max Jacob , Andre Breton . Three short stories became the basis of Ravel 's Night Gaspard Piano Suite ( 1908 ). In 1922, the street in Dijon was named after Bertrand.
Text Publishing
- Bertrand A. Gaspard from darkness. Fantasies in the manner of Rembrandt and Kallo / Translation by E. A. Gunst ; the publication was prepared by N. I. Balashov , E. A. Gunst, Yu. N. Stefanov; editor-in-chief N. I. Balashov. - M .: Science, 1981. - 352 p. - ( Literary monuments / Academy of Sciences of the USSR ; Chairman of the Editorial Board D. S. Likhachev ). - 100 000 copies
Bertrand’s miniatures were also translated by Sergey Bobrov .
Literature
- Balashov N.I. Aloiziyus Bertrand and the birth of a prose poem: article // Gaspar from darkness. Fantasies in the manner of Rembrandt and Callot / A. Bertrand; translation by E. A. Gunst; the publication was prepared by N. I. Balashov, E. A. Gunst, Yu. N. Stefanov; editor-in-chief N. I. Balashov. - M .: Science, 1981. - Applications. - p. 235-295. - 352 s. - (Literary monuments / Academy of Sciences of the USSR; Chairman of the Editorial Board D. S. Likhachev).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Find a Grave - 1995. - ed. size: 165000000
- ↑ 1 2 Internet Speculative Fiction Database - 1995.