Louis Guilloux

Louis Guilloux ( born January 15, 1899 in Saint- Brieuc, † October 14, 1980 ) was a French writer, who, like his friends André Malraux and Albert Camus took a literature of social commitment - accordingly he scored during the occupation to the Resistance. In addition to novels and journalistic work of English teachers also wrote translations. Since 1983, the Prix Louis Guilloux after Guilloux, who received several awards itself, named.

Life and work

Louis Guilloux was the son of a socialist -minded cobbler. A scholarship enabled him to attend high school. At 15, he wrote articles for magazines; he soon devoted himself avowedly the literature. His Breton hometown of Saint- Brieuc - where he supported himself as a teacher - he stayed true to life. Guilloux had " no little resemblance to a Parisian literati ," writes Paris connoisseur Ilya Ehrenburg in his memoirs. He was modest and have been free of the " obligate addiction ", " to split a couple of philosophical hair ". During the Resistance met in his house the resistance fighters.

1924 Guilloux married to Renée Tricoire. He was friends with the writers Max Jacob and André Chamson; This gave him access to the publisher Grasset, where in 1927 his first novel may appear. Now put Guilloux at small distances several other novels before, most of which Le sang noir (black blood) from 1935 is highlighted. Before the film of World War 1 This book is about the decline of a bullied and cut small-town philosophy teacher, but also from the Verheizung of youth in militarism. His "hero" is leaning against Guillouxs early, anarchist -minded philosophy teacher Georges Palante, whom he revered. Kindler's New Glossary literature speaks of " haunting character studies "; Ehrenburg Black Blood counts among the " best novels of the interwar period "; still going on Jorge Semprún, who expects it among the greatest novels of the entire century. The book, which had been awarded in 1935 almost the Prix Goncourt, was translated into several languages.

1935 belonged Guilloux with Malraux, René sheet, Jean -Richard Bloch and Ehrenburg to the main organizers of the meeting in Paris international anti-fascist writers Congress. A year later, he traveled (as well as Eugène Dabit ) headed André Gide by the Soviet Union. The case suffered disillusionment prevented Guillouxs joining the Communist Party. However, he was a leader in the international Red Aid active, the Communist prisoners, refugees from Nazi Germany, or the Popular Front in Spain supported. 1945 began his friendship with Albert Camus. In 1948, he traveled with Camus into enslaved by France in Algeria. To Guillouxs friends included the philosopher Jean Grenier, who had also gone to Saint- Brieuc to school, and the essayist Jean Guéhenno, with whom he was in frequent correspondence.

After the liberation of France Guilloux interpreted for the crew members of the United States. The experiences gained from this ambiguous were reflected later in his short novel OK Joe! (1976 ), also reflected in a work by Alice Kaplan. Shortly before his death, he can still work his diaries and a tribute to his old philosophy teacher publish (1980). He is buried along with other prominent mental workers in the Cimetière Saint -Michel his birth town of Saint -Brieuc. There and in Rennes various roads and facilities are named after Louis Guilloux.

Awards

Works

• La maison du peuple, novel, 1927 German The People's House, Munich 1981, Frankfurt / Main 1983
• Dossier confidentiel, novel, 1930
• Companions, story, 1931, German companions, Zurich 1950
• Hymenée, novel, 1932
• Le lecteur écrit, novel, 1933
• Angélina, novel, 1934
• Le sang noir, novel, Paris in 1935, German Black Blood, East Berlin in 1973, Munich in 1979 and 1981
• Histoires de brigands, novel, Paris 1936
• Le pain des rêves, novel, Paris 1942
• Le jeu de patience, novel, Paris 1949
• Absent de Paris, novel, Paris 1952
• Parpagnacco ou la conjuration, novel, Paris 1954
• Les batailles perdues, novel, Paris 1960
• Cripure, novel, 1962 ( excerpt from Le sang noir )
• La confrontation, novel, Paris 1967
• La que j'aime Brittany, in 1973, together with Pascal Hinous and Charles LeQuintrec, German My beloved Brittany, Bonn 1975
• OK Joe!, Novel, 1976
• Coco Perdu, narration, Paris 1978, Coco German Perdu, or unexpected farewell: narrative ( in the form of a soliloquy ), Munich 1980, Frankfurt / Main 1982
• Souvenirs sur Georges Palante, Quimper: Calligrammes 1980
• Carnets 1921 - 1974, diaries, two volumes in 1978 and 1982
• L'Herbe d' oubli, reminders, 1984 ( posthumously )

Film-/Fernsehbearbeitungen of literary classics, 1973, by Roger Martin du Gard's Thibault