Christian Bobin

Christian Bobin ( born April 24, 1951 in Le Creusot ) is a French writer.

Life

Christian Bobin was the son of a Technical signatory to the world.

After a completed philosophy studies, he first worked in the Municipal Library of Autun, then at the Museum of Le Creusot, to finally become editor of the Revue Milieux.

His first texts that are characteristic in its brevity, published from the year 1977. 1993 he won the French Prix des Deux Magots for his work Le Très -Bas.

Awards

Works

• The Child, the angels and the dog. A novel about Francis of Assisi. From the French by Mary Otto. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1994, ISBN 3-451-23463-7.
• "Everything Enchantment ", Stuttgart 1992.
• " Melusine's Smile", from the French by Maike and Stephan Schuhmacher. ISBN 3-033-00040-1.
• "All the world has to do," 2005 Rowohlt Tb ISBN 978-3-499-24105-5.
• "All the world has to do," Edition tracks, 2002, ISBN 3-9521966-4-9.

Reviews

" Christian Bobin is a poet of the present, the eternal present - without pathos, without dark. (...) Only the Today he is facing, the miracle seed right now ... Pure Voice of the given - reminds you of Rilke, Char, and Julien Gracq ... and only she is even "

Quotes

" When you love someone, you always have something to tell him or write to all eternity. "

"The people? I do not see them. And the fathers even less. And young couples even less. It 's like this: I can see only women and children. To see a part of this life, you have to start to forget much of it "

"The books of today are made ​​of paper. The books of yesterday were from skin. The Bible is the only book of air - a flood of ink and wind. An absurd book, lost in his mind, as lost in its leaves as the wind in the parking lots of supermarkets, in the hair of women, in the eyes of children. A book impossible to keep quiet two hands to slowly fortzulesen it - it would soon escape would leave the sand trickling between the fingers of his sentences. "

" What I love about a person is not her beauty, her wealth or her intelligence -. , But the depth of the band, which she was able to tie in the Life"