François Bondy
François Bondy ( born January 1, 1915 in Berlin, † 27 May 2003 in Zurich ) was a Swiss essayist, literary critic and journalist.
Life
François Bondy, son of the author and director Fritz Bondy (aka NO Scarpi ), was born in 1915 in Berlin and grew up in Davos, Lugano and Nice. He studied German at the Sorbonne in Paris. He completed his studies with a licentiate in Richard Alewyn 1940. Until his internment in 1941 and the subsequent expulsion because he was of Jewish descent, he lived as an editor in Paris. In Zurich he was from 1941 worked as a political editor at the Zurich " World Week ". He worked as editorial and also as a freelancer for renowned Swiss and since 1945 also for German newspapers and magazines, including "The Month ", " Mercury ", " accents " and the " Süddeutsche Zeitung ", works. In Paris, he was appointed as editor of the magazine " Preuves ", which appeared from 1951 to 1969, known. Since 1975 he worked as an editor at the " Swiss Monatshefte ". He later worked for "Time ", " Süddeutsche Zeitung ", " Die Welt", "New York Times " and " NZZ ".
He has written several books on contemporary literature as well as historical- political works and made as a translator of works by Benedetto Croce, Guglielmo Ferrero, Emil Cioran and Johann Heinrich Merck as well as his monograph on Witold Gombrowicz ( with Konstanty Jelenski, 1978) a name. Ignazio Silone and authors such as Nathalie Sarraute became known by his mediation to a wider audience.
He was a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature.
François Bondy was in 1945 married to Lillian Blumenstein; he is the father of theater director Luc Bondy.