Hervé Bazin

Hervé Bazin (actually Jean -Pierre Hervé - Bazin, born April 7, 1911 in Angers, † February 17, 1996 ) was a French writer.

Life and work

Bazin experienced a difficult childhood in a religious middle-class family and opposed his authoritarian mother. He fled during his youth several times from home, rebelled against the Catholic upbringing and broke the connection to his family at the age of 20 years. First, he held various small jobs and wrote poems. In 1946 he founded the poetry magazine La Coquille and received the Prix Guillaume Apollinaire for his first collection of poems Jour 1948, followed by the collection of poems A la poursuite d'Iris.

On the advice of Paul Valéry, he turned away from the poetry and prose writing.

The during his childhood with his mother discharged conflicts he processed 1948 poing in his most famous novel Vipère au, in which he tells the hateful relationship between a hard and cruel mother and her children. Bazin had with this autobiographical novel a sensational success. The book has been filmed for television in 1971 and 2004 for the cinema and is now one of the classics of the French post-war literature.

Vipère au poing is the first part of the trilogy Les Rezeau (Family Rezeau ). The two subsequent volumes La mort du petit cheval (1950, The tablecloth is cut ), and Cri de la chouette (1970, The owl calls ), act of jeans trying to extort the paternal heritage and independence of the miserly and stubborn mother who will still display as malicious antagonist.

Ties both with respect to its subject matter as well as his writing Bazin to the older family romance of the late 19th century. As in this traditional French society novel rests the main focus on the meticulous documentation of French everyday worlds and the moral critique of the fact -do mentalities.

In 1960, member of the Académie Goncourt Bazin, whose president he became in 1973.

Politically, he was part of the Mouvement de la Paix ( Peace Movement ), which was close to the Communist Party, the Bazin felt likewise connected. In 1980 he was awarded the Lenin Prize of the GDR.

Bazin 's great-nephew of René Bazin Académicien.

Works (selection)

Poetry:

• Jour, 1946
• A la poursuite d'Iris, 1948
• Bestiaire, 1953
• Humeurs, 1953

Novels, short stories:

• Les Rezeau

• La Tête contre les murs, 1949 ( With your head through the wall )
• Le Bureau of Mariage, 1951 ( The Marriage Office )
• Lève toi et marche, 1952 ( Arise, and go )
• Qui J'OSE aimer, 1956 (The I dare to love )
• Au nom du fils, 1960 ( My son )
• Chapeau bas, 1963
• Les bienheureux de la désolation, 1970 ( good luck on the volcano )
• Madame Ex, 1975 ( Madame X)
• Le Démon de minuit, 1988
• Le Jour Neuvième, 1994

Essays:

• La Fin of asiles, 1959
• Ce que je crois, 1977