Jules Renard

Jules Renard ( born February 22, 1864 in Châlons -du- Maine, † May 22, 1910 in Paris) was a French writer who preferred the small form, while with " fine, sometimes cruel humor" went to work. Politically, he was close to the left, as the author identifies him at all impressionistic comedy, a deep melancholy.

  • 2.1 stories and novels
  • 2.2 Journal
  • 2.3 dramas

Life and work

The son of a Burgundian contractor grows up in the forest - and water-rich landscape that is dominated by the mountain range of the Morvan. The oppressive climate for the child in the home can be easily guessed from Renard's novel episodenhaftem red fox, helps him (1894 ) for "breakthrough" as a writer. The child is a high school student until 1881 in Nevers, then in Paris. Renard's High School (1883 ) is too poor to be able to calculate the chances of Ecole Normale can. In addition, he has since warmed for writing and the corresponding literary milieu. Up to the first book publication ( a band with amendments 1888) however, it is a thorny path. The metropolitan literary world was a " fever profession," where you have success or dying, he wrote to his sister.

Red fox

His father, who continue to financially support him, the young Renard holds out with vague information. He looking for. Having 1886/87 his military service completed ( Bourges ), he tagelöhnert as an advocate Close help and tutor. He meets Marie Morneau, which proves to be very fortunate also in economic terms, whose wealthy mother has but in Paris a tenement. There go the two lovers 1888 as a married couple. The following year, Renard involved ( even as a majority shareholder ) in the founding of the journal Mercure de France, which brings it quickly to reputation. He regularly delivers both narrative and critical contributions for them. First experiments show the novel impressed by Balzac, Flaubert and Zola Renard that his strength is not in contrast to these models in typing, but in the striking drawing of the individual. Also for the "great shape " and for an extensive production, he 's the wrong man.

When the book around the small, unloved by his mother red fox appears, Renard himself has already had two children. In 1896, he rented at Chitry -les -Mines, his home, a former rectory, where the family will spend their summer in the future. The winter is Paris. From red fox comes out in 1900 a stage version, it still brings to 125 ideas in the same year and Renard's reputation increased by leaps and bounds. He makes friends with well-known writers such as Edmond Rostand, Tristan Bernard, Alfred Capus and Lucien Guitry as actor learns and Sarah Bernhardt and the painter Toulouse- Lautrec. In the Dreyfus affair, which stirred up all France, he signed as numerous other celebrities a petition for revision of the miscarriage of justice that appears in Le Temps on 15 January 1898. In origin it is in 1904, as once before, elected his father mayor. He maintains relationships with the leading Parisian socialists Jean Jaurès and Léon Blum. The prestigious Académie Goncourt takes him in 1907.

Disease scruple

Reputation and offices make Renard not overbearing. Surely he longs for recognition, but " the exertion of power was repugnant to him -. So contrary that he was afraid to give a barber transfers" In 1904, he tears up (after the launch of a lark ) his hunting license. Perhaps not coincidentally, he was all his life equally with the " disease scruple " as if struck with migraine. Who does not know that disease, says the last entry ( 15 March 1910) of the journal selection ideas, dipped in ink, should " not even remember to be honest. " Maybe lay with the melancholy that maintains Renard obvious and spread, including an affinity for death in his family. Renard already feels exhausted by 30, yes consumed. His brother Maurice dies at 28; Father shoots himself in 1897; the mother drowned in 1909 in a well, into which it has fallen or has plunged itself. In the same year Renard suffers even a severe heart attack. The following May, he died, 46 years old.

His diary or journal, unusual " scarcity and conciseness " committed and therefore rather an extensive collection of aphorisms, is generally regarded as Renard's main work. It was highly valued among others, by writers such as André Gide, Kurt Tucholsky, Jean -Paul Sartre, Samuel Beckett and Somerset Maugham. Sartre saw himself even against a literature of silence. It lacks this " silence " but not to the comic, yes laughter. Winfried Engler points out, would succeed Renard remarkably well, " banal events of ironic distance in such terms that they seem interesting." On February 18, 1901 Renard wearing a:

I have not even had the good fortune to miss a train, which would be an accident.

Works

Stories and novels

  • Crime de village ( Village crime ), 1888
  • Sourires PINCES, 1890
  • L' Écornifleur, 1892, German The parasite Stuttgart 1964
  • La Lanterne sourde, 1893
  • Coquecigrues, 1893
  • Deux fables sans morale, 1893
  • Le Coureur des filles, 1894
  • Histoires naturelles, 1894, German NaturGeschichten Zurich 1960
  • Poil de carotte, 1894, German Red Fox Baden -Baden 1946, when mother son Munich 1989
  • La Maîtresse, 1896, The German mistress, Munich 1986
  • Bucoliques, 1898
  • Les Philippe, 1907
  • Patrie, 1907
  • Mots d' écrit, 1908
  • Ragotte, 1909, German The maid Ragotte, Stuttgart 1991
  • Nos frères farouches, 1909

Journal

  • Diaries 1887-1910, 1925, German selection ideas in ink dipped Munich 1986

Dramas

  • Le Plaisir de rompre, 1897, German The desire to separate, Munich 1990
  • Le Pain de ménage, 1898
  • Poil de Carotte ( Red Fox ), 1900
  • Monsieur Vernet, 1903
  • La Bigote, 1909
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