Hector Malot

Hector Henri Malot ( born May 20, 1830 in La Bouille, † July 17, 1907 in Fontenay -sous -Bois ) was a French writer.

Life

Malots father was a notary, who lived as a widower in a second marriage with the widow of a captain of the Foreign Legion. From her first marriage, both two children brought with them. Hector was thus the youngest child of the stepfamily.

While his father had a rigid character and rigor was exercised, his mother was conciliatory and read to the child to fall asleep trip reports (perhaps inspired by her first husband ). It also strongly rekindled his love of storytelling. When he had come of age, he decided against the advice of his father to study law, and turned to the literature on.

The young Malot learned at the Lycée Corneille in Rouen, ten years after Gustave Flaubert had studied there. Malot was friends with Jules Levallois, who later became bailiff of Sainte -Beuve and future literary critic. In school he did not bribed by outstanding performance.

In 1853 he moved to Paris, where he tried in vain to imagine a first piece. In order to secure his maintenance, he wrote for newspapers and magazines. Finally he went back to his parents, to write his first trilogy Les Victimes d' amour. The first part appeared in 1859.

In 1864 he began the construction of a country house in Fontenay -sous -Bois, which he was to occupy until his death. Because it was not far from the station, he used the trains to Paris to take walks there. In 1867 he married Anna Daries. Her daughter Lucie was born the following year.

1880 his wife died. 1881 married Hector Malot the 31 -year-old Marthe Oudinot de la Faverie.

1893, a year after the release of En Famille, his granddaughter Perrine was born ( the first name is that of the main character in the novel ).

Works

  • Victimes d' Amour ( trilogy ) Les Amants (1859 )
  • Les Epoux (1865 )
  • Les Enfants (1866 )
  • Raphaelle (1880 )
  • La Duchesse d' Arvernes (1880 )
  • Mariage Riche
  • Vire de Bord
  • L' Ombre
  • Une Peur
  • Sous le Suaire
  • Le magot
  • Le Café Adèle

Films

Bibliography

  • Edmond Spalikowski, Hector Malot et La Bouille, 1931.
  • Agnès Thomas Male Ville, Promenades en Normandie avec un guide nommé Hector Malot, éd. Charles Corlet, Condé- sur- Noireau, 1994.
  • Agnès Thomas Male Ville, Hector Malot, l' au grand cœur écrivain, éd. du Rocher, 2000.
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