Élémir Bourges

Elemír Bourges ( born March 26, 1852 in Manosque, † November 12, 1925 in Auteuil ) was a French author.

Life

Bourges grew up in Marseille and moved in 1874 in the Latin Quarter in Paris, where he belonged to a circle about Paul Bourget, Amédée Pigeon, Francois Barbey d' Aurevilly Coppée and recorded and the time trends of symbolism and decadence. Bourges wrote for the newspapers Gaulois and Parlement and founded in 1883 by Henri Signoret La Revue des chefs d' oeuvre.

In 1886 he moved to the preferred location of artists Samois -sur -Seine outside Paris. Under the influence of Joséphin Péladan he joined the Rosicrucians and processed their concerns in the novel Les oiseaux et les fleurs s'envolent tombent. Bourges was a vehement anti-Semite and paid homage to one year after his death in his novel Le Crépuscule des dieux not only the poetry and music of Wagner in his work Götterdämmerung, but told him the racist attitude.

Bourges was admitted to the Académie Goncourt in 1900 and thereby gained great influence on the literary scene in France. He was since 1883 the Czech Braunerová Anna, sister of the painter Zdenka Braunerová married. He is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery. In Manosque, Marseille and pierrevert streets are named after him.

Works (selection)

• Le Miracle de Théophile, after Rutebeuf, 1875
• Sous la hache. Paris: A. Colin, 1883 text
• Le Crépuscule des dieux, mœurs contemporaines. Paris, E. Giraud & Co., 1884 Text Twilight of the Gods. From the French by Alexandra Beilharz, afterword by Albert greed. Manesseplatz, Zurich 2013