Alphonse Allais
Alphonse Allais ( born October 20, 1854 in Honfleur, Calvados, † October 28th 1905 in Paris) was a French writer and humorist.
Alphonse Allais was a journalist and humorist, who died of a pulmonary embolism. We are left with him the image of a man with bitter humor and a master in the theory of the absurd. Alphonse Allais has hundreds of fantastic short stories written, almost all under time pressure. Except humorist he was at least as much of a poet, and has among other forms, the poem " Holorime " maintained, in the rhymes of the whole verse, so therefore the verse of a couplet from ( almost) the same sound sequences over the whole line consist.
Examples:
- " Par les bois du djinn s'entasse où de l' effroi, Parle et bois du gin ou de lait froid tasses cent. "
- » Alphonse Allais de l' âme erre et se f ... à l'eau. Ah! l' salé fond de la mer! Hé! Ce fou! Hello. "
The method falls in French a lot easier than in German.
Sometimes it can also self- mocking, as the following verse
With the comment in a footnote:
( If the previous Holorime really pure, ie " emmer dante " instead of " ennuyeuse " he would be pretty -. Dirty )
The universe of Alphonse Allais
Some people dive in Alphonse Allais ' world over and over again, including
- Captain cap, a person who does not mince his mouth ( " The bureaucracy is like microbes: you can not negotiate with microbes, killing them !")
- Francisque Sarcey, an undeniable theater critic of the newspaper Le Temps, the embodiment of bourgeois " round sense", which was often cited the craziest events - the "victim" himself did not mind it, but enjoyed it even to be readjusted by such a witty writer.
- The economist Paul Leroy - Baulieu, a supporter of protectionism, the theses of Alphonse Allais, drew ridicule on the pretext of praising them in several novels.
Umberto Eco discussed in his book " Lector in fabula " the textual employees at the front desk of Allais ' "Un drame bien parisien " and " The Knights Templar ".
Works
- À se tordre, Flammarion, Paris, 2002, ISBN 2-08-071149-0
- Amours, Délices et orgues, Union Générale, Paris, 1985, ISBN 2-264-00711-7
- Comment on fait les bonnes maisons. Contes, Michel, Paris, 1990, ISBN 2-226-04011-0
- Deux et deux font cinq, Union Générale, Paris, 1985, ISBN 2-264-00672-2
- A l' oeil, Librio, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-277-30050-0
- Come on, you read Allais. Satires of the century, Dtv, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-423-09261-0
- Plaisirs d'humor, Librairie Générale, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-253-19302- X
- Vive la vie! Choix de contes 49, Famot, Genfe 1978