Herman Luis Cesar Teyrlink ( fr. Herman Teirlinck ; February 24, 1879 , Molenbeck-Saint-Jean , Brussels metropolitan area , Belgium - February 4, 1967 , Bersel , Flanders , Belgium ) - Belgian writer , playwright and poet . He wrote in Flemish .
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The first winner of the prestigious Dutch Literary Prize (1956).
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Biography
He first studied medicine at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, then philosophy at the Free University of Brussels . Later, leaving school in Brussels, he began to study German philology at the University of Ghent , but he did not graduate.
He began to engage in journalism. He collaborated in the magazine Van Nu en Straks, which fought in the 1890s for updating and originality of Flemish literature .
Creativity
He published his first work in 1899 (the poem Metter Sonnewende). In 1900 - a collection of "Poems."
The author of collections of short stories in the impressionistic manner of “Quagmire” (1905), “The Sun” (1906). His novel “Mr. Sergeantzon” ((Mijnheer IB Serjanszoon; orator didactus, 1908) penetrated with caustic irony and epicureanism . In the novel “A Monkey with Ivory Legs” (Het ivoren aapje, 1909) G. Teyrlink reproduced the life of a big city. The novel is written in the form of a fantasy, with revolutionary events in the background, to which the author relates not without sympathy, although without understanding enough of them. Refined psychologism is characteristic of the clay clay towers epistolary novel (1918, ed. 1928, together with the symbolist poet C. van de Wustaine )
In the work of G. Teyrlinka, realistic trends are combined with decadent and modernist motifs, formalistic searches are especially characteristic of his expressionist play "Slow Motion" (1922) and other novels "Maria Speermali" (1940), "The Battle with the Angel" (1952) contain vitalistic ideas; the novel "Self-portrait, or Farewell Dinner" (1955) - autobiographical.
G. Teyrlink is a good storyteller , a delicate stylist . The writer was one of the first to understand the achievements of the Soviet theater and tried to use them (Slow Motion Film (De vertraagde film, drama, 1922), I Serve (Ik dien een Spel, 1924), Clay Towers (De leemen torens, 1918)).
Selected Bibliography
- The collection of short stories "Quagmire" (1905),
- The Sun (1906).
- "Mr. Serganszon" (1908),
- “Ivory Monkey” (another name is “Ivory Monkey with Legs”, 1909),
- “Maria Speermali” (1940),
- “The Battle with the Angel” (1952),
- "Self-portrait, or Farewell Dinner" (1955),
- Collection of plays "Death of the Gods" (1961).
- Poems.
Rewards
Hermann Teyrlink was awarded several prizes. He was awarded the Belgian National Theater Prize (1925 and 1928), the Belgian National Prize for many years of creative activity (1950), in 1956 he was the first to receive the Netherlands Literary Prize .
He is recognized as an honorary doctor of the Brussels Free University (Université Libre de Bruxelles) (1938), the University of Amsterdam (1947), the University of Liège (1954) and the University of Ghent (1959), which is a unique case in the history of Flemish literature.
Now in his house in Bersel opened a museum of the writer.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 Herman Teirlinck
- ↑ Jeannette Nijhuis - 2009.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Teirlink German // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ed. A. M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
Literature
- Encyclopedic literary dictionary. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia. Edited by V. M. Kozhevnikov, P. A. Nikolaev. 1987.