Feneon, Felix

Twenty-year-old came to Paris . In 1881 - 1894 he served in the military department. In 1884, he founded the journal “Revue Indépendante”, in which Edmond de Goncourt , Huysmans , Mallarme , Verlaine, and others participated. Together with P. Adan , Moreas and Metenier published the pamphlet “Petit Bottin des Lettres et des Arts” ( 1886 , without name of the authors). In 1886 he joined the anarchists . He took part in the symbolist movement, placing the articles in "Libre Revue", "Vogue", "Hommes d'ajourd'hui", "Carcan", "Cravache", "Symboliste", "Art Moderne" ( Brussels ). Opened to the French public figures and works of Rimbaud , Jarry , Apollinaire , Valerie , Joyce and other pioneering writers. The first began to defend in print neo-impressionist painting, in 1887 issued a brochure-manifesto "Les Impressionistes en 1886". According to John Revald, he “in order that no one confused the“ old ”impressionists with Seurat and his colleagues, Feneon created a new word“ neo-impressionists ”, although Seurat would prefer a more precise term -“ chromolyuminists ”.” . During the Dreyfus affair , a Dreyfusar close to Zola . In 1896 - 1903 he was the secretary of the editorial office of the magazine La Revue blanche .

Portraits of Pheneon left Signac, Valloton, Maximilien Luce .

Octave Mirbeau ( 1894 ) and Apollinaire ( 1914 ), later - Jean Polan ( 1948 ) gave a high assessment of the activities and the role of Felix Feneon in French culture during his lifetime.

Recognition was received by the novel Micronowells of Feneon Novels in three lines , which he anonymously published in the newspaper Le Matin in a heading under this name ( 1906 ) and which were assembled into a single whole by Jean Polan only after the death of the author (1948). A review of their English translation ( 2007 ) was answered by Julian Barnes .

In 1949, the Pheneon Literary Prize was established in France; among its first winners were representatives of the new novel .

The collected works of Pheneon ( 1970 , with later additions 2003 , 2006 ) were published, his letters were published, and separate editions corresponded with Mallarme, Jarry, Vielle Griffen .

• Nouvelles en trois lignes. - P .: Macula, 1990.
• Nouvelles en trois lignes et autres textes courts. - P .: Librairie generale francaise, 1998.

• Revald D. Post-Impressionism (Post-Impressionism). - Republic, 2002. - 464 p. - ISBN 5-275-00487-7 , 5-250-01837-8.

• Halperin JU Félix Fénéon and the language of art criticism. - Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1980.
• Halperin JU Félix Fénéon: aesthete and anarchist in fin-de-siècle Paris. - New Haven; L .: Yale UP, 1988 (biography; French. Translation - 1991).
• Lamer A. Die ästhetik des unschuldigen Auges: Merkmale impressionistischer Wahrnehmung in den Kunstkritiken von Émile Zola, Joris-Karl Huysmans und Félix Fénéon. - Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2009.

• The Pheneon Page in the Anarchism Encyclopedia (English)
• Felix Pheneon and Pointillism
• About the novels in three lines Pheneon (Fr.)