Jean Rousset

Jean Rousset ( born February 20, 1910 in Geneva, † 14 September 2002 in Geneva ) was a Swiss linguist and literary theorist.

Life and work

Rousset studied humanities ( and law ) at the University of Geneva. His teachers were Albert Thibaudet and Marcel Raymond. Rousset was 1938-1943 French lecturer at the Universities of Halle and Munich, from 1949 assistant at the University of Geneva. He received his PhD in 1953 on La Littérature de l' âge baroque en France. Circé et le paon (Paris 1953 Spanish Barcelona 1972 Italian Bologna 1985) and was from 1953 to 1976 as a colleague of Marcel Raymond and Jean Starobinski professor of French literature at the University of Geneva.

Rousset was a member of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome. He was honorary doctorates from the universities of Lausanne, Cluj -Napoca, Paris ( Sorbonne ), Venice and Trento.

Other works

Author

  • Forme et signification. Essais sur les structures de Corneille à littéraires Claudel, Paris, 1962 ( Italian Torino 1976)
  • L' Intérieur et l' extérieur. Essais sur la poésie et sur ​​le théâtre au 17e siècle, Paris 1968
  • Narcisse novelist. Essai sur la première personne dans le roman, Paris 1973
  • Leurs yeux se rencontrèrent. La scène de première vue dans le roman, 1973
  • Le mythe de Don Juan, Paris, 1978 ( itanienisch Parma 1980)
  • Leurs yeux se rencontrèrent. La scène de première vue dans le roman, Paris 1981
  • Le lecteur intimate. De Balzac au journal, Paris 1986
  • Passages, échanges et transpositions, Paris 1990
  • Dernier Regard sur le baroque, Paris 1998

Ed and translator

  • Max Picard, L' homme du néant, 1946 ( Hitler in ourselves)
  • Jean de La Ceppède, Choix de textes, Paris 1947
  • Andreas Gryphius, Choix de textes, Paris 1947
  • Pierre de Ronsard, Oeuvres choisies, Paris 1948
  • Angelus Silesius, Le voyageur chérubinique & La sainte joie de l' âme, Paris 1949 ( Cherubin Wandersmann & Holy souls - like )
  • Alfred Andersch, Les cerises de la liberté, 1954 Paris, Arles, 1990 ( The Cherries of Freedom)
  • Anthologie de la poésie française baroque, 2 vols, Paris 1961, 1988, 1992
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