Jean Schopfer
Claude Anet ( born May 28, 1868 in Morges, † January 9, 1931 in Paris, real name Jean Schopfer ) was a French writer and tennis player Swiss origin.
Life
Claude Anet studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. From 1888, he worked as a representative of an American company in Paris. Anet traveled by bicycle and by car through Italy, Persia and Russia. About his experiences, he wrote travel reports. The Russian Revolution, Claude Anet as an eyewitness.
He became known through travel literature, novels and plays. His Travelogues from Persia or Russia in the phase of the revolution reached popularity, and they expressed themselves as background of his novels and short stories that have played either in the French province or in Russia.
As a tennis player won Anet 1892, the French Tennis Championships in Paris, and was the following year in the final.
Works (selection)
- German edition: Ariane, Love in the Afternoon. Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1979, ISBN 3-499-14230-9
- German edition: Russian women. Novels. Weller, Leipzig 1926.
- Reprints: Reaching, Rudolstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-89793-197-8
- 2007: La révolution russe. Chronique 1917-1920. Phebus Édition, Paris ISBN 978-2-7529-0308-2.